In the days before email, SMS, phone or facebook how did you get a quick message to arrange a time to meet a friend? You did this: You hand wrote a little notice inviting your friends to meet you at the hotel tonight at 5pm, then pinned it to the board outside the post office, [...]
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In the days before email
Posted in Design, Dress, History, Sewing Projects, tagged 1850s, 1860s, 18th century, australia, bonnets, colonial williamsburg, drapers, dresses, gold mining towns, heritage, historic houses, historic theme parks, outdoor museums, photographers, sovereign hill, victoria on March 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A Stitch in Time
Posted in Design, History, tagged ABC program, drapers, dressmaking, hindsight program, history, janet walker, learning, podcast, sewing, sewing history, stitch in time, teaching on November 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Flickr: D Sharon Pruitt There was an interesting program on Hindsight, ABC Radio on Sunday 31 October 2010 (& available by podcast) called A Stitch in Time. It charted the history of dressmaking over the last two centuries in Australia. There wasn’t much on dressmaking in the early years of the colony with most of [...]
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