Handmade Collection (#2)

Young boy in his Rolls Royce style Toy Pedal Car
Young boy in his Rolls Royce Toy Pedal Car. Date: circa 1900s

Handmade Christmas card in the shape of a cake, with Santa Claus standing in the middle and a removable slice on the right. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Chiswick Art Workers Guild making Cecil Aldin toys
At the toy-makers: a glimpse at Mr Aldins works at Bedford Park. Members of the Chiswick Art Workers Guild busily manufacturing Mr Aldins toys

Advert for Debenham & Freebody blouses 1915
Handmade blouses in white linen or muslin, with stiff collar and cuffs. 1915

Young boy - Jesuit Mission - Belgian Congo - Handmade Toys
A boy in Jesuit Mission in the Belgian Congo asks: " What do you think of my work?" - he has made a fine selection of wooden transport toys, a river steamer, a van

Hand-drawn Greetings Card - Gnome riding a mouse
Hand-drawn Greetings Card - a Gnome (or elf) riding a mouse to post a letter of Best Wishes into a mushroom postbox (a sight often seen by those who may have had too many mushroom postboxes for)

Hand-drawn Greetings Card - Gnome riding a frog
Hand-drawn Greetings Card - a Gnome riding a frog to post a letter of Best Wishes into a mushroom postbox (a sight often seen by those who may have had too many mushroom postboxes for breakfast...!)

Hand-drawn Greetings Card - Goblin riding a hare
Hand-drawn Greetings Card - a Goblin riding a hare to post a letter of Best Wishes into a mushroom postbox (a sight often seen by those who may have had too many mushroom postboxes for breakfast)

China - Young Street Tailor Girls. Date: circa 1906

Rug. 1890-1902. Romania
Rug, probably made for sale. 1890-1902. From Andrasfalva (Maneuti, Romania). Ethnographic Museum. Budapest. Hungary

Hand loom. Woman weaving. Hungary
Woman weaving on a hand loom. Interior of Ethnographic Museum. Budapest. Hungary

Rugs. 20th century. Csik, Romania
Woven rugs. 20th century. From Csik, Romania. Ethnographic Museum. Budapest. Hungary

Head from a statue of a warrior with conical helmet. 625-600
Head from a statue of a warrior with conical helmet. Terracotta. 625-600 BC. Neo-Cypriot style. From the Sanctuary of Apollo, Phrangissa, Tamassos. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom

Prehistoric Art. Early Bronze Age. Handmade Jar of clay without decoration. Globular body, wide mouth and a handle. Dated in the third millennium B.C. National Archaeological Museum. Athens. Greece

Workshop handmade candles. Engraving of the eighteenth century in the Encyclopedie Diderot et d Alembert. Colored

Mens knitwear pattern, 1950s
Front cover of a 1950s knitting pattern featuring two dapper chaps wearing hand knitted pullovers. Date: c.1953

Furs Vaterland - German WW1 knitting postcard
German postcard featuring a row of little girls knitting For the Fatherland during the First World War. Civilians of all the warring nations knitted comforts for men serving at the front during this

Pressed violets on a handmade greetings card, with handwritten note. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Handmade Christmas and New Year card with mermaid
Handmade Christmas and New Year card with a mermaid emerging from the waves, and a lighthouse in the background. circa 1890s

Handmade greetings card with pressed violets and a handwritten note inside. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Fairies on a handmade Christmas and New Year card
Two fairies in a field on a handmade Christmas and New Year card, with pop-up greetings in the shape of mushrooms or toadstools. Date: circa 1890s

Handmade Christmas card in the shape of a stocking, with presents overflowing out of the top. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Handmade Christmas and New Year card with rainbow
Handmade Christmas and New Year card showing a pot of gold on a cliff top at the end of a rainbow, with a string to pull to reveal the seasonal greeting. Date: circa 1890s

Handmade Christmas card in the shape of a vase with a blue and white oriental design, containing four spills with seasonal greetings written on them. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card with stone wall and gothic window
Handmade Christmas and New Year card with stone wall and gothic window, and a string to pull to make an owl appear with a seasonal greeting. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Two handmade Christmas and New Year cards -- Please distil wishes to taste -- with a diagram of chemical apparatus. Date: circa 1890s

Handmade Christmas card in the shape of a cracker. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card with dogs and fireplace
Handmade Christmas card with dogs and fireplace, and a string to pull to make Santa Claus appear. (2 of 2) circa 1890s

Girl with envelope on a fabric greetings card
Girl holding an envelope on a fabric greetings card -- Guess who sends this. Date: circa 1890s

New Mexico Potteryu
A craftsperson of the Pueblo Indians, New Mexico, sits among a selection of handmade pots and bowls. Date: 1923

Fashion hood photograph, Britannia and Eve magazine, 1939
A woman smiling with a hand-knitted hood on. Date: 1939

What People Are Wearing - Viscountess Dunluce
The Viscountess Dunluce wearing a demure dress which she bought short, found matching material and had it transformed into this long dress. Date: 1966

What People Are Wearing - Amanda Grinling
The actress Amanda Grinling wearing a dress she made herself using a finged stole in pink and purple striped wool. The top is pink rayon. Date: 1966

Wartime knitting section, Britannia and Eve, 1940
A double-page knitting section with a man wearing a top tank pullover in the first page, a woman with a plain sweater and another with a crochet snood, hat and mittens in the second. Date: 1940

Pueblo Indians selling crafts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Pueblo Indians selling their handmade arts and crafts on a market day in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Date: 1940s

A Chinese Woman darning, Qianlong Period (1736-96) (gouache on paper). Chinese art. SWITZERLAND. Bern. Bernese Historical Museum

A Chinese Woman making a bobbin, Qianlong Period (1736-96) (gouache on paper). Chinese art. SWITZERLAND. Bern. Bernese Historical Museum

Tile representation of handicrafts. Catalan school, 17th-18th c. Ceramics. Proc: SPAIN. CATALONIA

WW1 knitting song music sheet - I m Knitting a Rosary
Front cover of a music sheet for a knitting-themed song - I m Knitting a Rosary, - words by Robert Levenson and music by Vincent Plunkett

WW1 knitting song sheet music
Front cover of sheet music for Knitting Song, published during the First World War when national patriotism was manifested by knitting comforts for troops. Date: c.1917

Sunlight Yarn Knitting book - vintage tennis fashion
Front cover of a Sunlight Yarn Knitting book featuring a young woman in a fine knitted jumper readying herself to take a smash during a tennis match. Date: 1914-1918

Baldwins knitting leaflet, WW1, winter at the front
Field & Hospital Comforts in Knitting and Crochet. Great War knitting booklet published by J & J Baldwins of Halifax featuring two British soldiers in a snowy trench on the Western Front

Comforts for troops, WW1 knitting from Sunlight yarns
Page from a booklet published by Sunlight Yarns during the First World War with patterns and instructions to make a variety of garments or comforts for troops at the front

Bracelet wool holder, WW1
Advertisement for a bracelet wool holder, an accessory to aid knitters who were making socks, mufflers and other comforts for soldiers during the First World War. Date: 1915

The Modern Knitting Book, WW1
Page from The Modern Knitting Book, a standard text for knitters edited by the appropriately named Flora Klickmann. Date: c.1916

A Revolution in Sock Knitting, WW1 Australian leaflet
Front cover of a leaflet issued by Parmer & Company of Sydney, Australia, instructing knitters on how to knit two socks at the same time on a single set of knitting needles

Weldons paper patterns for our troops, WW1
Page of items that could be made from Weldons paper patterns for soldiers during the First World War. Garments include night shirts, a bed jacket and a flannel helmet in a balaclava style. Date: c

American Red Cross leaflet, WW1 - knitting socks for soldier
A leaflet produced by the American Red Cross giving directions on knitting articles suitable for the Army, Navy and European sufferers

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