Sewing Collection (page 8)

Pixie tailors
While one pixie irons the fabric, the other sews the parts together to make a garment. In pixyland buttons seem to grow in pots and threads hang down from trees. Date: c. 1930

Business as Usual revue - Knitting and Sewing scene
A scene from Business as Usual a new revue at the London Hippodrome with a vicar addressing a group of ladies who are knitting and sewing comforts for troops. Date: 1914

Hat factory sewing machine at Battersbys Stockport Hat works, destined for delivery to their other factory near Arras, France Date: circa 1908

Sewing machine at hatworks
Photographed at Battersbys hat factory in Turncroft Lane, Offerton Stockport, note the industrial sized cotton reel on top of the sewing maching. Date: circa 1906

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

Making sphagnum moss dressings, Dartmoor, WW1
A group of cutters and machinists at Princetown on Dartmoor making cases for sphagnum moss which would become surgical dressings during the First World War

Willimantic Thread trade card, with the profile of a young woman in a red scarf. The Willimantic Thread Company won three medals at the New Orleans World Cotton Exposition of 1884 for the excellent

Advertisement for Fenwick tailoring
Advertisement for Fenwick ladies tailoring department, , with a silhouette of tailors at work by H.L. Oakley. Tailor gowns to order, twelve and a half guineas (just over thirteen pounds)

ITALY. Padua. Palazzo della Ragione. The spinner. 14th century. Fresco

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

Egyptian Gods Wall Hanging
Early 20th Century applique cloth picture wall hanging, a typical memento or souvenir from a visit to Egypt around 1910. Fragments of finely woven cotton materials sewn on more heavily textured

Lady Sclaters Hospital Supply Depot, WW1
Four photographs in the Sphere magazine reporting on the War Hospital Supply Dept opened in August 1915 by Lady Sclater, wife of Lieut.-General Sir H

Repeated design featuring knitted clothing, c. 1940s
A 1940s repeated pattern featuring knitted garments, needles and wool. c. 1941

1920s sewing machine
A stylish lady with bobbed hair uses a sewing machine on a work table, 1927. Date: 1927

Suffragette Boy On Chair Sewing. A small boy has been reduced to doing his sewing and darning and caption reads, This is what Votes for Women has done for me! Date: circa 1911

When Women Vote Men Sewing. Domestic roles reversed when women vote marriage rules revised, husbands duties now include making their trousers out of wifes old skirts and minding the baby

Patriotic stockings
Stockings embroidered with the Allied flags, a fashionable way of showing off ones legs and patriotism during the First World War

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

Darn It by Edmund Blampied
A pretty sketch of a young woman darning a stocking - a fine example of war economy. 1916

The National Dress, 1918
Mrs Allan Hawkey, inventor of the national standard dress, modelling its versatility exclusively for The Sketch magazine in 1918

Curtains for Baden Powell House, South Kensington, London
Women sewing curtains for the newly built Baden Powell House, Queens Gate, South Kensington, London. The site was acquired in 1956, and Ralph Tubbs was appointed architect

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

Lady Quilter with pile of comforts for troops, WW1
The Hon. Lady Quilter of Methersgate Hall, Woodbridge, Suffolk, pictured standing next to a pile of scarves, shirts and other pieces of clothing made by her cottagers

Workers for the Red Cross, WW1
Women at the town house of Mrs R. G. Edwards at 22 New Cavendish Street ( one of the latest of Londons beautiful homes to be devoted to the work of the British Red Cross )

Fishermans daughter, Robin Hoods Bay, Yorkshire
Fishermans daughter sewing outside her home, Robin Hoods Bay, North Yorkshire. Date: late 19th century

Geishas sewing, reading and writing, Japan
Three geishas sewing, reading and writing, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Bonzo Suffers From Overwork by George Studdy
Bonzo Suffers From Overwork. He is fast asleep after a rummage through his mistresss sewing basket. Date: 1923

Girls Sewing at St Barnabas Home, New Brighton, Cheshire
Girls from the St Barnabas Home on Montpellier Crescent, New Brighton, engaged in sewing. The home was opened in 1898 by the Waifs and Strays Society. Date: 1920s

Three duchesses doing war work, WW1
Three duchesses doing war work at the start of the First World War. Above: the Duchess of Westminster working at her sewing machine in the open air at Gifford House, Roehampton, wearing a large hat

Winter greatcoats being made in army clothing factory, WWII
A great effort being made to get a big supply of greatcoats finished quickly so that no men may be caught by winters grip without them

Silhouette Calendar -- January, New Year Resolutions. Showing a little girl sewing at a table. Date: 20th century

A tale of Clarks O. N. T. Spool Cotton
A tale of Clarks O.N.T. Spool Cotton. Mournful the tale, and sad the sight, o, shed a tear for Joness plight. His clothes were new but ah, the cotton theyd sewed them with, alas was rotten

Nursery Rhyme -- The Carrion Crow. A tailor sits sewing, and is irritated by a carrion crow making a noise in a tree. He aims at the crow with his crossbow

Cover design, Silhouette Calendar -- Many Happy Returns. Showing a little girl sitting at a table sewing. Date: 20th century

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

Romanian Women by village gate Date: 1920s

Norway - Traditional Costume - Children
Norwegian children in traditional dress. Good examples of Hardanger embroidery or Hardangersom - a form of embroidery traditionally worked with white thread on white even-weave cloth

Rooftop Tailors
Tailors working on a roof during a heat wave, cutting and sewing cloth for suits, Regent Street, London, England. Date: early 1930s

Tailors Working Outdoors
Tailors working on a roof during a heat wave, cutting and sewing cloth for suits, Regent Street, London, England. Date: early 1930s

Underground home - Kamchatka - Far Eastern Russia - used in the harsh winter. Date: circa 1800

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

Using a Singer Sewing Machine on the Caroline Islands - a widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea. Date: 1894

Lady from Bulgaria using a Singer Sewing Machine, pictured with a Gentleman and another woman, also both in traditional costume. Date: 1894

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

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