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Sewing and repairing Metropolitan Police uniformA long line of tailors sewing and repairing Metropolitan Police uniforms at a police clothing store in Lambeth Road, south east London
Poster: Simple jobs that girls can do to help win the war. 1940s
Bootmakers in CyprusMaking traditional Cypriot heavy boots in Cyprus Date: circa 1910s
Pfaff sewing machines advertAdvertisment for Pfaff sewing machines, beginning of 1900s. Date: 1900s
Indian Street TailorsIndian street tailors with their sewing machines. Date: 1930s
Good Wives - 3Meg and John Brooke have just quarreled about her jellies : they sit sulking, she with her sewing, he with his paper - but soon a kiss will put things right. Date: first published 1869
Doggy SeamstressA dog seamstress stitching up a torn dolly. Date: early 1930s
Making Queen Elizabeth IIs coronation robeMiss 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
Dunderpate and his mother with the darningDunderpate and his mother at home -- she is doing some darning and mending. He tells her what his teacher said: if I can find him a bigger dunce than myself he ll change places with me! Date: 1938
Mr Richard Comings and his wifeA silhouette showing Mr Richard Comings and his wife seated at a table. Date: 1898
Wendy North, seamstress, at Chichester Festival TheatreWendy North, a Chichester girl, a seamstress in the Chichester Festival Theatres wardrobe department. On the dummy is one of Joan Plowrights costumes. Date: 1962
Russian Berlin Work Pattern with a spider and his web. Date: 1937
Women refugees sewing army clothing, Baghdad, WW1Women refugees sewing army clothing in Baghdad, Mesopotamia (now Iraq) during the First World War. One woman is using a Singer automatic sewing machine. Date: 1917
Tailor, India - Manufacturing Clothing Fabric Date: circa 1910s
Sewing Machine TruckA truck constructed specially to carry sewing machines, one of hundreds of varieties of trucks and trolleys available in Slingsbys Patent Trucks List. 1910
Farningham Little Boys Home, Tailors ShopBoys equipped with needles, sewing machines, and a flat iron, learn tailoring at the Home for Little Boys at Farningham in Kent
Embroidering, India - Manufacturing decorated FabricThree generations of Indian Embroiderers - Manufacturing beautifully decorated clothing fabric. Date: 1906
Fairy flannel is the skin of peaches (Useful Hints). 1922
Sierra Leone - Making a Seine netSierra Leone - Fishermen making a Seine net. A seine is a large fishing net that hangs in the water due to weights along the bottom edge and floats along the top
Wartime cover of Weldons Ladies JournalFront cover of Weldons Ladies Journal for August 1940 with a wartime couple, smiling together, he in RAF uniform. The cover also advertises patterns inside of pretty undies and a smart frock
Wartime fashions, 1940A variety of smart dresses available as sewing patterns from Weldon s. Date: 1940
Wartime shopping bagInstructions from Weldons Ladies Journal on how to make a gay, easy-to-make shopping bag which folds up when not in use, and is a useful alternative to the paper wrappings becoming increasingly
Making HandbagsMen and women working together in a factory, making handbags with sewing machines. Date: early 1930s
Dressing Dolly, 1911An American girl makes new clothes for her doll. Date: 1911
Howes Sewing MachineElias Howes sewing machine was the first to employ the lock-stitch Date: 1845
Sewing with MachinesClothes produced on sewing machines. Date: 1863
Two Women / EmbroideryTwo women from the Royal School of Needlework work side by side on a design on a canvas frame. Date: 1930
Girls Shows Sewing / G maA young girl shows her sewing to her grandmother who inspects it over the top of her spectacles. Date: 1880
Belt Workshop 18th CMen and women making belts in a French workshop in the 18th century. Date: Circa 1760
Advertisement for Hotpoint gifts for ChristmasHotpoint gifts " Your problem - everyones - now is - what can I give". Various useful items for the housewife that will save her time, trouble and expense
Sailmaker - Penzance, CornwallAn elderly sailmaker (Arthur Willoughby), working in the traditional way in Penzance, Cornwall
Sewing class, NIPRCC East Harling, NorfolkBoys take part in a sewing class at the East Harling, Norfolk, branch of the National Institutions for Persons Requiring Care and Control
Women sewing in a factoryWomen sit at work at a long bank of sewing machines in what appears to be a clothing factory or workshop
Tailoring class, NIPRCC East Harling, NorfolkBoys taking part in a tailoring class at the East Harling, Norfolk, branch of the National Institutions for Persons Requiring Care and Control
Part of a room to let, East End of LondonInterior of a house in the East End of London where the demand for cheap accommodation was such that even a part of a room might be sub-let as indicated by the notice on the window
National Workshop (Tailors) in the Prison of Clichy, ParisTailors at work in the debtors prison of Clichy in Paris, working away while one inmate reads aloud from the newspapers of the day
Samos - Tobacco GrowersTobacco Growers sew leaves together for drying
Empty allotments / W H RobinsonOn the allotment when we don t have to grow our own cabbages This post war couple use theirs for flute practice and sewing
Terazije - Belgrade, SerbiaTerazije - 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
People from Archangel with their Singer Sewing MachinePeople from Archangel, Russia with their Singer Sewing Machine in their tent - a seemingly improbable scene, but you never know!
Couple from Cyrene, Libya with their Singer Sewing Machine
Ladies from Greece using a Singer Sewing MachineTwo Ladies and a gentleman from Greece surrounding a Singer Sewing Machine
Lady from Londonderry using a Singer Sewing MachineLady from Londonderry, Northern Ireland using a Singer Sewing Machine
Ladies from Turkestan using a Singer Sewing Machine
Ladies from Edinburgh using a Singer Sewing Machine
A Woman from Boulogne using a Singer Sewing MachineA Woman from Boulogne, France using a Singer Sewing Machine
Hatmakers from Georgia using a Singer Sewing Machine
Lady from Wurtemburg using a Singer Sewing MachineLady from Wurtemburg, Germany using a Singer Sewing Machine
