摘要：The copper in the wash house Once town-dwellers did their washing in coppers in outhouses or basements. In 1974, women in a house in Viborg were still using this method although semi-automatic and automatic washing machines were common. The apartment house has now been rebuilt in the district from the 1970s in Den Gamle By, where visitors can see the homes and the wash house with a new-built copper. When the bricklayers were about to reconstruct the copper from scratch, they had no original working drawings to go on. Trade skills were normally handed down directly from one generation to another. By breaking old coppers down, the bricklayers learned precisely how they were arranged and constructed, with a stoke hole for firewood, flues and the builtin water tank. Then, by building a new copper, they learned an old technique and documented it for the benefit of future generations. Many people today still have memories of long, hard washing-days in the past. We hope these memories will be revived at the sight of the copper in the wash house in Den Gamle By.
