This 140-year-old Dhobi ghat is the world's largest outdoor open-air laundromat located in Mumbai, India. | Washerman whip the clothes into the flogging stone of the rectangular-shaped open-air concrete wash pens called Dhobi Ghat. This occupation passed down from one generation to the next generation. For those people living in these areas, water is part of their lives. It brings them a sustainable source of income and livelihood of all the families living there. A livelihood that becomes a part of their culture. And a culture that turns to their unique heritage. | Despite having modern machinery of washing clothes nowadays, they are still doing their traditional way of washing clothes and garments through a concrete wash pen. Additionally, they use to dry the clothes through an arrays of a twisted ropes without using any pegs or wooden clips on it. | A man collects the clothes from ghats and bring to a wooden cart for daily delivery. | An improvised wooden cart to load the newly washed clothes to be deliver to respectives clients and establishments around the city. |
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