Beim Checken meiner Lesezeichen bin ich heute hier gelandet, es lohnt sich unbedingt, dort hineinzuschauen. Es geht um einen Gegenstand, der durch die Technik vielleicht vom Aussterben bedroht ist.

Die beiden peg collectors gad charny and yoav ziv meinen zu ihren Objekten:

a daily, mundane, banal object, which we all seem to possess, though we rarely look at. the ‘silent servants’..... an object so basic yet so useful, that has the quality of serving many functions in addition to it's original one. it can be used to hang stuff, to hold, to fasten, endless number of uses, almost as versatile as the office clip.

one would have expected the pegs to disappear, with the appearance of the drying machines, but they have survived the technological change. on the contrary, the number of different clothes pegs seems only to be growing.


The 'evolution snail' of the classic wooden cloth peg, including two disguised plastic pegs