needlework

32 photos and 3 illustrations tagged needlework, from 10 members of Flickr Commons.

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Rickey Doublerly knitting a fishing net: Jacksonville, Florida

from Florida Memory

Three sisters doing needlework on the verandah of their Toowong home ca. 1918

from State Library of Queensland

  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    In the past Girls spent a lot of time at home learning to do domestic tasks, like sewing, cooking, washing, and cleaning. Their education was geared towards training them for womanhood and how to be good wives and mothers. Needlework was a key part of this education, from the working class to the wealthy. It was seen as an essential feminine skill—plain sewing to make and mend clothing and household items, and embroidery to decorate them. Needlework samplers have been around since the 15th century and had become a standard feature of girls’ education by the 1700s. Settler girls in Australia made cross-stitching samplers at school. But samplers and other domestic items don’t tell us much about the lives these girls led outside the home. Girls often worked out of the home as domestic servants or in factories, went to school, and played in the urban neighborhood. Some evidence of this can be found in the shape of homemade wooden dolls from archaeological digs around Little Lon—a working-class area on Little Lonsdale Street. We have written correspondence, photos, and paintings of prominent men and women from the era, but these rarely include much detail about children. Of the hundreds of thousands of girls born in 19th-century Australia, very little of what they made have survived. Source: museumsvictoria.com.au/article/a-discovery-of-stitches-ne...

Clothing designer Abenaa Owusu showing her scrap quilt: Tallahassee, Florida

from Florida Memory

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  • Keen Hope said:
    A beautiful photo. She seems to flow right into the quilt.
  • New Mexico Chili Peppers said:
    Beautiful photo.