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Harris Sewing Machine, Model No. 23HHarris Sewing Machine, Drawing Room Cabinet, Model No.23H. 1920s
Harris Sewing Machine, Model No. 14HHarris Sewing Machine, Vibrating Shuttle Folding Cabinet, Model No.14H. 1920s
Harris Sewing Machine, Model No. 12HHarris Sewing Machine, Central Bobbin Treadle Machine, Model No.12H. 1920s
Harris Sewing Machine, Model No. 10HHarris Sewing Machine, Vibrating Shuttle Treadle Machine, Model No.10H, with wood frame. 1920s
Harris Sewing Machine adapted to electric motor. 1920s
Harris Sewing Machine Model E, from W H Harris & Co Ltd, Peckham, London SE. 1920s
A Sewing Class, Guild of the Good SamaritanA Sewing Class, The Guild of the Good Samaritan, Clothe the Poor, making up material sent by our readers. 1899
Young girl sewingYoung girl out in her garden sewing. Artist: Clara Olmstead Date: 1909
SilhouetteBusy Little Maids sewing a guilt. Artist: H G C Marsh Lambert Date: 1921
Music cover, The Sewing Machine, sung at London and provincial concerts by Fred Buckingham and Fred Callingham and the author, Frank Bell circa 1860
Illustration, Wendy sewing on Peter Pans shadow. Date: 1950s
Woman pressing a seam under a damp clothWoman using a hot iron to press a seam under a damp cloth. Date: circa 1940
Woman tacking a hem before stitching itWoman tacking a hem with tacking cotton before stitching it. Date: circa 1940
Using a sewing machine to attach a lacy edging. Date: circa 1940
Sewing items, including needles, pins, scissors and threadSewing items: needles, pins, scissors, thread, chalk, thimble and tape measure. Date: circa 1940
Hampstead Orphan Working School - SewingGirls engaged in a summer outdoor sewing class at the Hampstead Orphan Working School, London. Date: early 1900s
Helena and Hermia - female friendship in ShakespeareHelena and Hermia sit sewing together, created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion - an example of female friendship in Shakespeare (A Midsummer Nights Dream). Date: 1841
Meltham Mills 1851Meltham Mills, near Huddersfield. Brooks family, Royal improved, patent cotton spinning mill. 1851
Fabric shop workers. Women in muslin dresses, bonnets and shawls embroidering, sewing, cutting cloth and wrapping bolts of fabric
Straw-hat makers, women and girl, sewing hats from braided and plaited straw in a milliners shop. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts
Singer sewing machine. 1897
Advert, Pfaff Sewing Machines. 1897
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
Paget stump workPage from The Sketch featuring two examples of stump-work - raised needlework and embroidery pictures - done for the Paget family
Advert, Four Famous SingersAdvertisement for the Singer Sewing Machine - Four Famous Singers - Adelina Patti, Christina Nilsson, Emma Albani and the sewing machine! circa 1895
An early sewing machine. 1856
Christmas card in the shape of a sewing box, open to reveal items inside and a greeting under the lid. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s
Market Place, Huddersfield, Yorkshire. circa 1900
Dressmakers workroom in London 1858Interior of the working conditions of a dressmakers workroom in the west-end of London. With women over worked and tired at five-past twelve midnight. 1858
Three nurses sewing at a table, WW1Three nurses sewing at a table, First World War. 1914-1918
Church Street, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. Date: circa 1900s
Sewing dollys dress - Young girl with plaits mending her dollys dress, aided by her friend. Artist: Enid Warne Browne Date: circa 1930
Young woman using a Singer Sewing Machine Date: circa 1910s
A Tailor at work. Date: 1900
Woman sitting in her own home in South London, making the hat boxes for a supplier that make silk hats for the richer society
Woman with Dog on Phone Date: 1950
Tailoring 1855Tailor sitting crossed-legged on the floor sewing a piece of clothing. Date: 1855
Londons drapers 1900Busy work room in a drapers in London. Date: 1900
Steam sewing factory 1854A large clothes manufactures at Holloway and Co factory, here you can see twenty machines at work, driven by steam power attended by young women. Date: 1854
SEWING MACHINE LESSONAmanda learns to use an electric Singer sewing machine during a school lesson. Date: 1960s
TAPESTRY MAKING 1930SA woman makes a tapestry, tracing the design from a canvas. Date: 1930s
JAPANESE HOUSEWIFE SEWSA Japanese housewife in traditional costume, sewing some fabric together. Date: 1930s
SPECIAL THIMBLEA boon to all bachelors who sew, this simple device, fitted to a thimble, makes it impossible to lose the needle, and saves time, temper and trouble. Date: 1930s
LADIES TAPESTRY GROUPA group of women sew tapestry panels Date: 1930s
A stitch in time saves nine 1866A middle class mother sews her daugthers clothing with the little watching her. Date: 1866
BACHELOR / WORKMAN 1866A young bachelor sewing his own clothes at home: Single Blessedness! Date: 1866
FRENCH BOURGEOIS FAMILYPapa with his journal, mama with her sewing, the two older girls practising duets, the youngsters playing with the cat - while a log burns cheerfully in the hearth Date: 1897