I’m a sewing history dork, so I have always loved antique thread cabinets. These display boxes were a common sight in the 19th century. Thread cabinets stood on the counter at the general store, organizing and displaying colorful spools of thread for a seamstress’ discerning eye.
I love the idea of thread being considered so important that it deserves its own little wooden...
The latest (and oldest!) addition to my vintage sewing periodical collection:
Happy Inspiration Sunday!
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I fell in love with Ellen Lesperance‘s paintings at the Seattle Art Museum.
Ms. Lesperance – a Portland resident! – takes archival footage of female activists doing direct action while wearing sweaters and uses the images to create knitting charts of those sweaters.
Ms. Lesperance’s sweater chart paintings are meant to memorialize female participation in social ...
1970′s Better Homes and Gardens sewing room….
Gibralterian women in a refugee camp sewing room in Jamaica during WWII……
1900′s Home Economics sewing room…
1930′s Woolen Coat factory sewing room in Wisconsin…
1855 sewing room using some of the first commercially available sewing machines….
Women laughing in 1945 while stacking...
Here’s your weekly dose of inspiration! I love this one. Mix art, poetry, sewing, foreign accents and thrift stores together and you get this awesomeness:
p.s. Yeah, I know it’s Monday. Whatever. I just moved!! If you’ve ever packed a sewing room you know how I feel right now.
p.p.s Agustina Woodgate’s website rules. She has done a lot of...
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