January 2008- Its been a while since I've updated this site. I want to thank everyone who has visited my site over the past few years. Its been amazing that Ive had people from all over the world stop by. Sure, most dont stay and browse but those that do sometimes write me or leave a note in the guestbook. Ive even had one person write me asking if I could give her information about a rack she had. In the end I ended up buying the rack from her because it was so unusual. Hopefully this year I will find time to add more racks to the database. By my last count I have over 90 unique racks. Im also thinking of making a format change so you dont have to do so much work to view all the racks. Anyway, thanks for taking the time to visit my site.

In a simpler age, laundry was happy enough to dry on a line strung between two trees, or two poles, or any other stationary objects within a reasonable distance of each other (no, the neighborhood kids won't do!) For some, though, this was just too simple. Ingenious backyard inventors devised elaborate ways to combine pieces of wood and iron in order to create an object that could be folded away out of sight or, at least, out of the way. Hundreds, if not thousands, of backyard inventors toiled endlessly to come up with an ever better design for a drying rack. In many cases the designs were elegant in their simplicity or worse, wicked in their complexity. Many of the better designs were actually made into racks that could be used every day.

The primary purpose of this site is to display my collection of racks and my collection of rack patents. I hope this site will amaze and amuse. If you are truly dying to find out how I began collecting drying racks then just click here.

There is another aspect of this site that I hope will pan out. Mainly, I'm looking for 2 things. The first is other collectors of drying racks. Until I find them I will hereby claim that my collection is the biggest in the United States and maybe in the whole world!! So, if you want to contest that claim please email me. The link is over on the left. Another aspect of this site is to hopefully find racks that I don't have in my collection. If you have a rack and you don't see in my collection I would love to hear from you.

There is one category of drying rack I don't collect. They are the kind of drying racks that have many cross pieces and fold up in a variety of ways like this. I decided to not collect these types at this time for several reasons. The first reason is that I didn't find them to be very interesting. I've changed my mind a little on this recently. The second reason is that I only have so much space and would rather use it for my primary collection.