Sewing Collection (page 2)

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

Darners, The Flora MacDonald Needle Packet

Condor Nickel Plated Crewel Needles, packet design

Patent Burnished Egg Eyed Darning Needles packet, manufactured by W Hall & Co, Studley

Tailors at the Lester Hospital, Shanghai, China, Victorian period

WW2 Women Sewing
This illustration shows four women sat at home, knitting and sewing to assemble comforts for the war services during WW2. Date: circa 1941

Chippity Cuckoo
A front cover illustration to Chippity Cuckoo, by E. M. Bell. The image portrays a fairy sewing together a British WW2 Home Guard uniform onto the cuckoo. Date: circa 1944

Swansea and South Wales Institution for the Blind
Girls knitting and sewing at the Swansea and South Wales Institution for the Blind

Table of handiwork, Garden Fete at Charlton Park, London
Table of knitting and sewing, Garden Fete at Charlton Park, SE London, 17 July 1920 Date: 1920

Japan - Zori Sandal maker
Zori Sandal maker, Japan. Date: circa 1920s

Mrs Tryon the Tailor's Wife

Mr Snob the Shoemaker

Instructions for creating decorative patches to repair holes in fabric, with ideas for motifs. Date: 1943

Sewing Susan Needles and Threader
Sewing Susan, 49 silver eye needles with threader Date: circa 1950

Suffragette political cartoon, Louis Wain
Suffragette political cartoon, Comical Cats, by Louis Wain. Date: 1914

Advert cover, Wheeler & Wilson's Sewing Machines
Advert cover, Wheeler & Wilson's gold medal lock stitch Sewing Machines, Queen Victoria Street, London, and Bold Street, Liverpool

Advert, Wheeler & Wilson's No. 6 Sewing Machine
Advert, Wheeler & Wilson's new rotary-hook lock-stitch No. 6 Sewing Machine, price £9. Date: 1875

Advert, Wheeler & Wilson's Sewing Machines, Cabinets and Hand Machines. Date: 1875

WW2 poster, Worth Fighting For, Worth Saving For! For ways of saving, ask the officer who pays you. National Savings to help the war effort. Date: circa 1940

Men and women in a tailors workshop with sewing machines on the workbenches. Date: circa 1960s

Three people in a tailors workshop. Date: circa 1960s

Tailor at work on a garment. Date: circa 1960s

Representing the tailors of the regiment making kilts for the Gordon Highlanders in the barrack-yard at Aberdeen. Date: circa 1902

These are scenes from the London Orphan Asylum in Watford. 1) boys doing drill 2) the boys band 3) sewing class 4) the Prince of Wales proposing the toast of the asylum at the Jubilee Dinner at

Thomas Samuel & Sons British needle Mills in Redditch, Worcestershire. Men making spring steel needles and fish hooks. Date: 1862

A group of female dressmakers working together on an elaborate evening gown. Date: 1853

Home for working girls in London. Date: 1882

A Norwegian huldre, whose everyday appearance is calculated to deceive the naive countryman. Date: 1879

Mothers Meeting. Date: 1872

Comic postcard, Little boy tells mother about his teacher Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, woman sewing underwear Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, woman sewing underwear Date: 20th century

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Sew What
The Caption is Sew What? Clothing could only be purchased if one had enough Points to do so and the Points were rationed. A wartime slogan was Make do and Mend

Street scene with girl sewing, Italy
19th century vintage photograph: Street scene with girl sewing, Italy

Concubine (mekake) of a high-ranking man watching a dancer
Concubine (mekake) of a high-ranking man with tobacco pipe watching a dancing girl accompanied by musicians on shamisen and blind koto harpist (koze)

Man and woman lost in the countryside in a night storm with a servant holding a lantern. Miseries of the Country. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Skeleton of death aiming a dart at a woman sewing a garment. Death and the Seamstress. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joshua Gleadah after an illustration by Benedictus Antonio Van Assen

Skeleton of death aiming a dart at a young man at a desk
Skeleton of death aiming a dart at a young man writing with a quill pen at a desk with several books. Death and the Student

Children sewing
Busy Little Mothers. Silhouette of two young girls sewing. Artist: Helen Grace Marsh Lambert Date: 1918

Cartoon, The Political Tailors (Disraeli and Gladstone)
Cartoon, The Political Tailors -- a satirical comment on Disraelis progress with his Reform Bill. He would like his political rival, Gladstone, to give him a helping hand, but Gladstone refuses

Ouvroir at St Vincent de Paul Orphanage, Le Havre
The Ouvroir (sewing workshop) at St Vincent de Paul Orphanage, Le Havre, France. Date: early 1900s

Cover design, W J Harris & Co Ltd Sewing Machines Cover design
Cover design, W J Harris & Co Ltd, Sewing Machines brochure. 1920s

Needlework class, Sandringham, Norfolk
Needlework class, Queen Alexandras Royal Technical Schools, Sandringham, Norfolk. 1910

Harris Sewing Machine stand. 1920s

Harris Sewing Machine, Modelss and No. 1H
Harris Sewing Machine, Modelss and No.1H. 1920s

Harris Sewing Machine, Models No. 2H and 9H
Harris Sewing Machine, Models No.2H and 9H. 1920s

Harris Sewing Machine, Model No. 7H
Harris Sewing Machine, Vibrating Shuttle Treadle, Model No.7H. 1920s

Harris Sewing Machine, Model No. 6H
Harris Sewing Machine, Drop-Head Family Machine, Model No.6H. 1920s

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