Vintage Suspended Ceiling Clothes Drying Rack | Sheila Maid Clothes Dryer

The Sheila Maid Clothes Dryer is available in two different lengths with either four or six drying rails. The metal hardware is available in clear lacquer or black, white, or ivory. You will find a Sheila Maid Clothes Dryer that will fit most applications.

Add a bit of nostalgia to an old-fashioned country kitchen with one of these functional, at-the-ready clothes and towel drying racks. These clothes drying racks are also great for drying herbs and noodles. The maximum safe working load is 17 lbs. when the pulleys and rope cleats are screwed securely into a joist or other load-bearing supports.

Each drying rack includes instructions and all required parts for installation. These parts consist of the wooden rails, two cast iron rack ends, a single pulley, a double pulley, a cleat hook, and a 33’ of 10m, UK-manufactured cotton rope.

Each pulley has a built-in 4" lag screw for easy installation into a ceiling joist.

The wooden rails are cut from sustainable forestry projects. The wood is kiln-dried and left natural without a finish, just like they have been made for over a century.  

The Sheila Maid drying racks are currently made in Scotland and assembled and shipped by an old-fashioned U.S. company that has been doing business here since 1895. The company, in support of its local county economic development council, has established a sister-city relationship through the Scotland Development International Council.

The four-rail Sheila Maid is 15.5” wide, and the six-rail system is 22” wide. The two available lengths are 57” and 72” long.  Keep in mind the rails can be trimmed shorter, allowing you to adapt either length to most spaces.

Price begins with the 57” four-rail system and incrementally adjusts as different models are selected using the drop-down boxes.

Color options for the metal hardware are a clear metal lacquer finish (the most popular) and black and white.

Planning to install the Sheila Maid in the middle of a room, on a vaulted ceiling, or on an extra-tall ceiling? If so, you will want to purchase an additional double pulley to route the ropes over to the wall and down to the wall cleat. Without the extra pulley, the rope will hang diagonally from the rack down to the wall cleat. 

The extra pulley keeps the ropes near the ceiling, then lowers them down the wall over the wall cleat. Each kit comes with 33’ of rope; an additional 33’ can be purchased using the drop-down boxes. The wall cleat should be hung high and out of reach of children.

Canadian customers, please contact us for shipping rates.