Sewing Collection

Advert, Four Famous Singers
Advertisement for the Singer Sewing Machine - Four Famous Singers - Adelina Patti, Christina Nilsson, Emma Albani and the sewing machine! circa 1895

Singer Sewing Machines - factory in Clydebank, Scotland. 1932

Sewing a quilt. Gees Bend, Alabama. Date 1937 Apr

Dressmakers workshop
Staff in the workroom of a dressmaker or outfitter. Clothes in various stages of completion are on dummies. The employees (all female apart from a solitary man with a tape measure around his neck)

Singer in Bulgaria
This Bulgarian lady, like her husband and her daughter, is wearing her flamboyant regional costume as she treadles away at her Singer

Margot Fonteyn repairing her ballet shoes
Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991), British ballet dancer, pictured at her Kensington home repairing her ballet shoes around the time she danced the role of Aurora in Sleeping Beauty at a Royal Command Gala

Little Miss Natty Fingers by Muriel Dawson
A 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

Welsh Lady using a Singer Sewing Machine
Seated Welsh Lady using a Singer Sewing machine in traditional costume, with a similarly-dressed lady alongside as well as a smart Welshman

Great Barr Colony, Staffordshire
Great Barr colony for mental defectives, opened circa 1918 by the Walsall and West Bromwich Joint Committee to house people with severe learning difficulties

Wertheims Sewingmachine
The sewing machines manufactured by Joseph Wertheim of Frankfurt are used by gnomes as well as by the housewives of Ballarat and Warrnambool

Advertising card for Singer Sewing Machines. One boy is so entranced by the new Singer in the shop window, he is unaware his friend is pinching some of the berries from his basket! However

Singer Factory / Postcard
Workers leaving the Singer factory, makers of the famous sewing machine

Advert / Singer Sewing
Singer sewing machines

Cover design, Simplicity Sewing Book, helpful hints for beginners and experts. 1947

Busy tailors workshop
A busy tailors workshop, with a gentleman being fitted for a new suit

Singer Sewing Machine - Shoe Repairers Machine model 29K53. 1932

Singer Sewing Machines - factory clock tower. 1932

Woman sewing
Woman sitting down sewing. Date: 1917

Flowers for Grandmother

The Improved Ladys Own Sewing Machine by Leigh & Crawford, Brooke Street, Holborn, London EC. 19th century

Gordon Highlanders making kilts in the open air
A group of soldiers from the Gordon Highlanders, some smoking pipes, sit outdoors making kilts. One of them is using a sewing machine

Sewing in the Garden by Millicent Sowerby
Two girl guides sit in a picturesque garden knitting socks and comforters after their exertions gardening

Making horse tack in a workshop
Two craftsmen preparing the leatherwork for horse tack; shaping, stretching and sewing the pieces to the correct shape and size. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Forty Winks by C. E. Wilson
A dear old lady in a mop cap, spectacles and a tartan shawl has fallen asleep at a table in the middle of reading a newspaper and sewing a patchwork quilt

Happy Families / Mr Tape
" Happy Families" was devised in Britain by Mr Jacques in 1861

Girl Sewing / Cat Sleeping
A little girl sits sewing while her cat sleeps at her feet

French Tailors C18Th
An elegant Frenchman has a fitting for a new coat. A tailor, down on one knee, makes some adjustments. Another, sewing buttons, sits cross legged on a bench

Stitch Types Diagram
Leaflet that is promotional & instructional as it clearly & simply shows you how to do various basic handsewing stitches & hems such as handkerchief or rolled hem

Mr Tape the Tailor, from " Happy Families" devised in Britain by Mr Jacques in 1861

The Dacca Twist Companys Sewing Cotton, Manchester
Advertising showcard, The Dacca Twist Companys Sewing Cotton, Manchester. Date: circa 1900

Betsy Ross, 1777. Betsy Ross showing Major Ross and Robert Morris how she cut the stars for the American flag; George Washington sits in a chair on the left. Date c1932 July 28

Firemen at Chipping Norton Workhouse, Oxfordshire
Firemen stand in a burnt-out section of the Chipping Norton workhouse in Oxfordshire following a fire on 19 March 1911. Sewing machines and cotton reels amongst the debris indicate a sewing room

Domestic sewing machine. Bride and groom. Date c1882

Moroccan Pouf Makers
Moroccan Pouf makers

Social / Us Sewing Room
Two girls and a woman in an old-time sewing room

Young Woman Sewing
A superb mezzotint showing a young woman engaged in needlework

Girl Sewing Quilt C1890
A little girl completes the final stitches on a quilt. Date: circa 1890

Household / Sewing (C17)
Two Dutch women sewing

Advertisement for Kerrs thread, Newark, New Jersey, USA
An advertisement for Kerr & Co thread of Newark, New Jersey, USA. Keep your eye on Kerrs Thread. Sure to Please. Showing a young lady sitting on a giant reel of thread

Singer Building, New York, USA - compared to other Buildings
Promotional card for Singer Sewing Machines, featuring a view of the Singer Building, New York, USA - compared (in height) to other tall Buildings in the UK: Nelsons Column, Dublin

Illustration of a family of women sewing at home, the centre figure using a sewing machine. Advert for Dewhurst's Sylko Machine Twist Date: 1918

Illustration of a lady using her sewing machine at home Date: 1920s

People with sewing machine, Natal, Africa

Group of people in Natal, Africa with a sewing machine, early 1900s

Sewing Buttons - Illustration of a lady sewing buttons onto a coat. Artist: ? Webb. Date: 1924

Superior Dorcas Sewing Needles packet, W Clarke & Sons, Mount Pleasant Mills, Redditch

Darners, The Flora MacDonald Needle Packet

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