What is a Sheila's Maid?

Kitchen ceiling-hung clothes airer/drier. http://www.sheilamaid.com/ A Sheila's Maid is a traditional laundry airer that can still be found and used in British households for over 100 years. It dries your clothes by using a pulley to raise the Sheila Maid to ceiling height where rising warm air dries your clothes. The Sheila's Maid is often constructed of pine slats fixed at either end with cast iron designed hangers to support the equidistant slats which are used to dry the laundry items