Needlework Collection (page 3)

Four kittens on a cutout greetings card -- The Sewing Circle. circa 1890s

Four sewing cats on a Christmas card
Four sewing and gossiping cats on a Christmas card -- The School for Scandal. Date: circa 1890s

Costume designs, Weldons Beautiful Needlework
Costume designs and patterns for girls, a page in Weldons Beautiful Needlework magazine. Date: circa 1920s

Egyptian designs, Weldons Beautiful Needlework
Egyptian designs for home furnishings, an insert page from Weldons Beautiful Needlework magazine. Date: circa 1920s

Tapestry designs, Weldons Beautiful Needlework
Tapestry designs for home furnishings, a double page spread in Weldons Beautiful Needlework magazine. Date: circa 1920s

Cover design, Weldons Beautiful Needlework, No. 2, showing a young woman in a crinoline dress sewing. Date: circa 1920s

Needlework for the war effort, Claridges Hotel, WW1
Women making woollen shirts for the war effort at Claridges Hotel, London, at the start of the First World War. The garments are destined for Lord Tredegars yacht

The Needle Worker, WW1 knitting & sewing booklet
Front cover of monthly magazine, The Needle Worker, from the Great War period featuring a photograph of a Belgian kepi cap - the knitting pattern for which was inside. Date: c.1915

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

WW1 The Ladys World cover - dreadnought cushion cover
Front cover of a First World War period The Ladys World Fancy Work Book featuring a topical design for a dreadnought cushion cover. Date: c.1915

Sewing boxes and baskets, WW1
Fitted sewing box and a floor standing sewing box, available from Mark Cross Ltd of Regent Street. Perfect for the many ladies sewing for soldiers and sailors during the First World War. Date: 1914

Lady French helping women find work, WW1
Lady French, wife of General French, pictured in a work room at Harrods where unemployed women were engaged at a wage of ten shillings a week with a good dinner and tea daily

Princess Margaretha of Sweden working for Red Cross, WW1
Princess Margaretha, aged fifteen years old, the eldest daughter of Prince Carl of Sweden, brother of the King of Sweden, brother of the King of Sweden, and Princess Ingeborg

Work rooms of Lady Sclater, WW1
A page from The Sketch showing society ladies hard at work at the work rooms of Lady Sclater at 18 Pont Street, London. In the top photograph

Ladies of the Council of Queen Marys Needlework Guild
Members of the Council of Queen Marys Needlework Guild. On 10th August 1914 Queen Mary issued an appeal to the women of the Empire to organise a large collection of garments for those who will suffer

Countess Curzon & Princess Helena Victoria making clothes fo
Lady Curzon and Princess Helena Victoria of Schlewig-Holstein - just two of the numerous workers in the YMCA work-rooms at Hertford Street seen at their sewing machines making under-garments for

1937 Coronation - Imperial mantle of cloth of gold
The magnificent vestment, the Imperial mantle donned by King George VI following his anointing in the Coronation ceremony, seen as it was nearing completion at the Royal School of Needlework

Girls Sewing at St Cuthberts Home, Darlington
Girls occupied at needlework at the St Cuthberts Home, Cleveland Avenue, Darlington, County Durham. The home was opened by the Waifs and Strays Society in 1893. Date: 1920s

Queen Alexandras coronation dress worked in India
The superb overdress of Indian embroidery which was made for Queen Alexandras Coronation costume, being worked during the winter of 1901-2 in Delhi by forty of the most skilled needleworkers at

Queen Marys Needlework Guild
In a London hotel, ladies working for Queen Marys Needlework Guild make clothes for front line soldiers Date: August 1914

Adverts and messages commemorating the coronation
On the left, an embroidery created by the Royal School of Needlework for the makers of Capstan cigarettes (branch of The Imperial Tobacco Co.)

A reluctant musician: the honest truth
An aunt quizzes her unkempt nephew Tom about his prefered hobbies. Date: 1871

Paris Maternity Hospital
A group of women doing needlework around a table, with only one child to supervise between them, at a maternity hospital and creche in Paris, France. Date: early 1930s

A Mexican Criada (House Servant) carrying a large jar on her shoulder. The caption to this card states that: " All the work about native households is performed by Such Women." Date

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - A little bit behind
" A little bit behind!" - A kind young girl helps her boy chum who has torn his shorts and requires an urgent spot of patching-up! Date: circa 1942

Lady from Georgia using a Singer Sewing Machine, pictured with two other women working on needlecraft and a male musucian, sitting on the floor surrounded by elegant cushions. Date: 1894

Tailor and dress maker
People You See. Tailor and dress maker. From Teddy Bear (30 November 1963)

Boy sewing in a window

Craft school Pottery, modeling, weaving, painting, drawing, woodcarving, sewing, needlework, metalwork, photography. Poster for WPA Federal Art Project sponsored art

National Training School of Cookery / Domestic Economy
The National Training School of Cookery and other branches of Domestic Economy, London. The Needlework and Dressmaking Room. Date: circa 1907

Embroidered bouquet
From a needlework and dressmaking magazine.Date: 1933

Making Queen Elizabeth IIs coronation robe
Miss Ruby Essan of Wimbledon engaged in her task of making the embroidered crown for the coronation robe of Queen Elizabeth II at the Royal School of Needlework

Russian Berlin Work Pattern with a spider and his web. Date: 1937

Two Women / Embroidery
Two women from the Royal School of Needlework work side by side on a design on a canvas frame. Date: 1930

Dining room, mid 19c
A dining room and study, possibly German. Three young women sit, one sews, one weaves, one produces a cross stitch or tapestry on a frame

National Workshop (Tailors) in the Prison of Clichy, Paris
Tailors at work in the debtors prison of Clichy in Paris, working away while one inmate reads aloud from the newspapers of the day

Terazije - Belgrade, Serbia
Terazije - the central square and an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. Here local men make traditional costume pieces including the highly decorated jerkins

Garter banner of Queen Mary
The garter banner of Queen Mary, made at the Royal School of Art Needlework (now the Royal School of Needlework) in South Kensington, London

Garter banner of King George V
The garter banner of King George V, made at the Royal School of Art Needlework (now the Royal School of Needlework) in South Kensington, London

Education, girls, needlework
A young girl sits at a Singer sewing machine to hem a skirt during a needlework lesson at school

Lingerie, Womans Journal 1932
Lovely lace lingerie. A sit up in bed dressing jacket with rose design detailing, pleated knickers and a slim fitting chemise and closed knickers embroidered with a blue bird design

The Duke of Edinburgh opening the Seamens Orphanage in Live
Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, opening the Seamens Orphanage, Liverpool in 1870. The Liverpool Seamens Orphan Institution was established in order to provide care

Girl Learning Lacework
A schoolgirl learning the art of lacework at the London County Council Handicraft School

Sewing class in a German Catholic girls school
A sewing class taking place in a German Catholic girls school

Owen Jones Elizabethan
Designs copied from needlework, tapestry, diapers, drapery and dress patterns

Ww1 / Souvenir H-Made Card
Hand-made souvenir card. (View 1 of 2)

Ladies Sewing / 1850S
Open bodices with or without revers worn with chemisettes (with buttoned front, broderie Anglaise, volans), pagoda sleeves, various styles of engageantes & lace caps

Peasant Girl / Russia / 1905
A Russian peasant girl in a highly decorative full-length dress

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