Here in Australia we still hang our washing on a line. We have the Hills hoist and I have a multi line fold up on the back verandah. I only use the dryer in wet weather.
I remember wash day was quite a ritual when I was a child. Coppers were the go and the clothes, sheets etc were boilded in the copper, then rinced in the blue water and mostly wrung by hand and pegged on the clothes line. My mother got her first wringer washing machine in the late 1950's. My Mum is now 84 and wasing day is still very much the ritual of a Monday, of course. I certainly don't follow all the washing rules of long ago but I still wipe the line and always hang whites with white and tops by the bottoms and bottoms by the tops.
My Dad had an engineering works and I remember he made my Mum her first rotary hoist, very similar to the hills hoist.