Sewing Collection (page 9)

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

Norway - Traditional Costume - Mother and daughter
Norwegian Mother and daughter (and pet dog!) in traditional dress. Good examples of Hardanger embroidery or Hardangersom - a form of embroidery traditionally worked with white thread on white

Women Villagers weaving - Madeira, Portugal Date: circa 1910s

Advertisement for Shoolbreds flannel shirts, WW1
Advertisement for Shoolbreds flannel shirts, cut out and ready for women to sew for soldiers at the front in the First World War. Date: 1914

First singer sewing machine

DR֌LING, Martin (1752-1817). Interior of a kitchen
DR֌ LING, Martin (1752-1817). Interior of a kitchen. 1815. The image represents two women sewing and a boy playing in the interior of a kitchen. Romanticism. Oil on canvas. FRANCE. Paris

France (19th c.). Industrial Revolution. Sewing machine factory in Paris. Etching

Tailor and dress maker
People You See. Tailor and dress maker. From Teddy Bear (30 November 1963)

The Magic Patches. Orphan girl Linda sews patches on the coat of a beggar-man

The Story of Donkey-Skin. From Playhour (1958)

Advert for Gutermann Sewing silk threads 1935
Gutermann Sewing silk threads. 1930s women using a sewing machine. 1935

J & P Coats Sewing Cotton
Late 19th Century Showcard - J & P Coats Sewing Cotton late 19th century

Tailor sewing by a stream

Nursery scenes

Boy sewing in a window

Electrical Appliances
This French farmers wife has an electric cooker, radiator, water heater, iron, boiler, washing machine, sewing machine and ventilator Date: 1961

NFS (Salvage Corps) protective sheets, WW2
Salvage sheets put in place by NFS Salvage Corps workers protect goods and equipment from water damage

Sewing. Print shows a young woman sewing. Date between 1912 and 1925

All goods sewed by the Double Thread Sewing Co s. patent process must bear their stamp. Date c1877

Craft school Pottery, modeling, weaving, painting, drawing, woodcarving, sewing, needlework, metalwork, photography. Poster for WPA Federal Art Project sponsored art

Then, now, and forever!. Betsy Ross sewing flag, and George Washington standing alongside. Date c1908. Note: Some screening on image

Ferguslie Thread Works of J & P Coats Ltd, Paisley, Scotland Date: circa 1920s

Child at sewing machine. Date 1872

Grover & Banker Sewing Machine Co. 495 Broadway New York. Grover & Banker Sewing Machine Co. 495 Broadway New York

Domestic sewing machines. Fashions for the fall of 1873. Date c1873

Nearly done. Date c1898 Oct. 20

Two girls, one reading, one sewing. Date c1873

Happy as the days long. Date c1876

Lititz, Pennsylvania. The oldest member of the Moravian sewing circle is in her nineties. Members of the circle quilt for anyone who wants it at the cost of one cent a yard of thread

National Training School of Cookery / Domestic Economy
The National Training School of Cookery and other branches of Domestic Economy, London. The Needlework and Dressmaking Room. Date: circa 1907

The Miseries of a Bachelor. Unmarried man trying to do his own sewing and darning Date: ca. 1865

Wool shop window display, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Window display at a wool shop in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex circa 1948

Sewing and repairing Metropolitan Police uniform
A 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 Cyprus
Making traditional Cypriot heavy boots in Cyprus Date: circa 1910s

Pfaff sewing machines advert
Advertisment for Pfaff sewing machines, beginning of 1900s. Date: 1900s

Indian Street Tailors
Indian street tailors with their sewing machines. Date: 1930s

Good Wives - 3
Meg 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 Seamstress
A dog seamstress stitching up a torn dolly. Date: early 1930s

Making Queen Elizabeth IIs coronation robe
Miss 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 darning
Dunderpate 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 wife
A silhouette showing Mr Richard Comings and his wife seated at a table. Date: 1898

Wendy North, seamstress, at Chichester Festival Theatre
Wendy North, a Chichester girl, a seamstress in the Chichester Festival Theatres wardrobe department. On the dummy is one of Joan Plowrights costumes. Date: 1962

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