How did people clean rugs before vacuums?

Posted in Questions & Answers - 20 November 2009 - 1 comment

I’m watching Pride and Prejudice and all the rooms have hardwood floors with large rugs. How did they get them clean? It seems strange they would have dragged them outside to beat them twice a week.

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Tags: hardwood floors, People, pride and prejudice, rugs, Strange, Vacuums

One Response to How did people clean rugs before vacuums?

  1. eskie lover says:
    January 30, 2010 at 10:47 am

    We beat them. My Papa literally would drag them out in the yard, hang them over a line and we beat them with brooms and sticks. We didn’t do it during the winter months, however.

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