Terry cloth diapers

I was wondering if anyone here in the US, or Canada ever wore terry cloth diapers as a child? Or, have you ever used them on your children? I know terry "nappies" were pretty much a standard type in the UK. I never remember seeing them used here, except in some training pants. Carter, and Spencer's were two I know of, that used terry cloth in training pants. Not sure why this was, no one using terry diapers, that is?

I do have adult sized terry diapers I wear now. Some are from the UK, and some I special ordered here in the US, ( very thick diapers! )

I was just wondering if anyone here did have them as a child, or used them on the kids?

Doesn't that type of fabric make it very hard to clean?

White cloth nappies (secured by safety pins either side) is all a mother had to rely upon when i was an infant. Washing them would have been a very time consuming task as they were usually soaked in a twin concrete tub prior to placing in the washing machine. Disposables did not exist

Just prior to that time most household laundries had what was called a copper,constructed of either brick or concrete & a large heavy gauge copper tub insert with domed copper lid. Underneath this construction was provision for a coke (or timber) fired furnace to heat the water in the tub. Items placed within were then stirred frequently using a large wooden pole & thereafter passed through a hand operated / crank handled twin roller wringer

So basically the cleaning process was initiated by manual labour. .Those same tubs are now sought after

Stories from "Downunder"

I don't do messes, and don't have experience with that in terry diapers/nappies, but I would think it would be a bit more difficult to clean.

It was cloth of some kind. As a young child there was no such thing is disposable, and we didn't use disposables in the 60's for our own children either. To this day I only use cloth though I've given disposables a try - most of the original package remains in the cupboard somewhere in the house. But then life more me began in the early 30's

I had them as a child, although I don't remember them. I don't have kids. I do wear terry cloth diapers myself, under certain circumstances.

Not from the Us but here in the UK when I was a kid there was little else. I was in terries and plastic pants until I was about five during the day and until about 8 or 9 at night.