Where did the wooden clothes peg come from or originate from?
By “clothes peg” are you referring to a “clothes pin” which holds clothes on a line? This is what I found: Today, many clothes pegs (also clothes pins or pags) are manufactured very cheaply by creating two interlocking plastic or wooden prongs, in between which is often wedged a small spring. This design was invented by David M. Smith of Springfield, Vermont, in 1853. By a lever action, when the two prongs are pinched at the top of the peg, the prongs open up, and when released, the spring draws the two prongs shut, creating the action necessary for gripping. The first clothespin was invented by the Shakers, who did not patent their many inventions. This older design does not use springs, but is fashioned in one piece, with the two prongs part of the peg chassis with only a small distance between them – this form of peg creates the gripping action due to the two prongs being wedged apart and thus squeezing together in that the prongs want to return to their initial, resting state. This
