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Little Miss Natty Fingers by Muriel DawsonA little girl concentrates on a garment she is sewing, presumably for the doll which sits next to her. An interesting basket full of sewing paraphenalia spills over beside her
Shoreditch Cottage Homes, Hornchurch, EssexBoys in surplices leaving the chapel at the Shoreditch Union cottage homes, Hornchurch, Essex. Opened in 1889 to house pauper children away from the workhouse
Romanesque Art. 11th century. Tapestry of Creation or Girona Tapestry. Creation of birds and fish. Museum of the Cathedral of Girona. Catalonia. Spain
Woman sewingWoman sitting down sewing. Date: 1917
Mr Tape the Tailor, from " Happy Families" devised in Britain by Mr Jacques in 1861
AdvertisementsAdvertisement for Royal Society Needlework Products showing embroidery packages. Illustration from Delineator magazine November 1923. Artist anon. Date: 1923
Young Woman SewingA superb mezzotint showing a young woman engaged in needlework
Royal naval Needlework Guild - Royal Sailors Rest PortsmouthRoyal naval Needlework Guild at the Royal Sailors Rest Portsmouth
Old Bleach Needlework Competition AdvertAn advertisement promoting a £1000 prize competition for needlework, hosted by the Old Bleach Linen Co. Ltd. Date: circa 1921
Frank partridge AdvertisementAn illustrated advertisement for Frank Partridge, promoting a choice selection of old English furniture, including a couple of mahogany pole screens with banners in fine petit point needlework
A group of female dressmakers working together on an elaborate evening gown. Date: 1853
Marylebone SchoolThe St Marylebone School began as the Marylebone Day School of Industry, founded in 1791 in what was then Paradise Street, now Moxon Street, to educate the children of the poor in the parish
George Stephenson at Darlington - embroideryEngraving of a painting by A. Rankley, " George Stephenson at Darlington in 1823." Stephenson would often drop in on Joseph Pease to talk with him about the progress of the Darlington
Needlework class, Sandringham, NorfolkNeedlework class, Queen Alexandras Royal Technical Schools, Sandringham, Norfolk. 1910
Exhibition of needlework by Mary Linwood, LondonExhibition of needlework by Mary Linwood (1755-1845) at Old Savile House, Leicester Square, London. early 19th century
Musica, Pre-Raphaelite Needlework Picture. 1906
Embroidering King Edward VIIs Coronation RobesNeedlewomen embroidering King Edward VIIs coronation robes at the Royal School of Art Needlework. 1902
Advert for The Modern Knitting BookBlack and white advert for The Modern Knitting Book, inside The Etiquette of To-Day, edited by Flora Klickmann. Date: circa 1914
Advert for Two "Jolly Little Books"for Little GirlsBlack and white advert for Two " Jolly Little Books" for Little Girls on the inside of The Etiquette of To-day book, published by the Girls Own Paper, circa 1914. Edited by Flora Klickmann
Advert for the Home Art Series of booksBlack and white advert for the Home Art Series of useful skills such as crochet and fancy stitchery on the inside front cover of The Etiquette of To-day book, published by the Girls Own Paper
Making sacks and warm clothes for the troops, WW1Women making sacks and warm clothes for the troops in a YMCA hut during the First World War. 1914-1918
Paget stump workPage from The Sketch featuring two examples of stump-work - raised needlework and embroidery pictures - done for the Paget family
Royal Society Needlework ProductsAdvertisement for Royal Society Needlework Products showing embroidery packages. Illustration from Delineator magazine February 1923. Artist anon. Date: 1923
A colourful and exotic gathering of animalsElaborate illustration showing all manner of exotic creatures. 1933
Cartoon, dressmaker at workCartoon, a dressmaker works by lamplight at a table. Her work hangs around her as she sews in poor light. Date: 1870
Cripples Home and industrial School for Girls 1900Cripples Home in Marylebone Road, photograph showing girls doing needlework. Date: 1900
Queen Elizabeths Sewing Bee at Buckingham Palace, 1939Members of the Palace household and wives of employees of the Royal Mews assembled in the Blue Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace for Queen Elizabeths Sewing Bee
Royal Wedding Presents - satin blanketsWork in progress on the making of one of the two satin covered blankets ordered by Princess Marina from the Royal School of Needlework on the occasion of her marriage to Prince George
Sewing in the 18th CTwo french women in a sewing workshop doing needlework and taking advantage of the light coming from the huge windows. Date: Circa 1760
Needlewoman wearing a pretty hand-made embroidered frockA young woman working on her needlework frame wearing a fancy frock, hand-made and embroidered with Clarks Anchor thread. Her kitten plays with a ball of wool. Date: 1923
The distress in Lancashire: Sewing for unemployed girls, 1862Sewing school for unemployed factory girls, Zion Chapel, Stretford Street, Manchester. The girls, ranging in age from sixteen years old to adult women, have free use of the premises
Advert for Countess of Warwicks Easton 1896Countess of Warwicks Easton School of Needlework, in New Bond Street, London, showing two women wearing gigot sleeved blouses. 1896
Altar frontal by Antonio Sadurni. 1450. Legend of St. George with princess and dragon. Chapel of St. George. Palace of the Generalitat. Barcelona. Spain
Gothic. Altarpiece. 14-15th century. Fancywork. Christs resGothic. Altarpiece. Detail. 14-15th century. Fancywork. Christs resurrection. From Ex-collegiate Church of Sant Feliu. Girona Art Museum. Spain
China - Young Street Tailor Girls. Date: circa 1906
Cover of a needlework catalogueLiberty & Co needlework catalogue. Image depicts a young lady working at a tapestry frame. Art Nouveau style.Date: circa 1905
Needlework pattern in outlineLiberty & Co pattern from Needlework Catalogue.Date: circa 1905
The Embroidery Frame by Bertha NewcombeA young Victorian woman using an embroidery frame, a sewing box next to her and an example of her work, in the form of a sampler, seen on the wall behind her. Date: 1905
