I don’t have a huge collection of 19th or 20th century sewing tools, just a select number of things I have inherited or found at vintage fairs. But I have meet people who have a passionate love of collecting sewing tools, and they have some truly amazing items. But aside from that what would Jane [...]
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What would Jane Austen keep in her sewing box?
Posted in Design, Dress, Embroidery, History, Jane Austen, Quilting, Uncategorized, tagged 19th century, craft, dress, Embroidery, fabric, fashion, regency, Regency fabrics, satin stitch, sewing, sewing tools, Victorian Crafts on February 24, 2012 |
Seen But Not Heard?
Posted in History, Jane Austen, Uncategorized, tagged children, elizabeth bennet, governess, household duties, jane austen education, jane austen's mother, lady catherine, pride and prejudice, regency, teachers on February 17, 2012 |
Source: Flickr -Lin pernille Jane Austen’s mother sent each of her babies at the age of three month old out to a local family to nurse and raise the child. The baby was raised in another family’s home but was visited each day by their parents: seen every day but perhaps not heard everyday? At [...]
Sewing Early Sydney
Posted in Architecture, Design, History, Sewing Projects, tagged australia, colonial australia, convicts, craft, early australia, early sydney, grace karskens, regency, sewing, shirts, sydney, watkin tench, women convicts, women's work sewing on January 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Book Review: The Colony By complete chance, I happened to be reading Grace Karsken’s The Colony: A History of Early Sydney when I heard her discussing the book on Radio National’s By Design. This one is by far one of the best early Australian history books I’ve read. I enjoyed her book very much, particularly [...]
Huswifes and Needlecases
Posted in Design, Embroidery, Jane Austen, Uncategorized, tagged craft, huswifes, needlecases, needlerolls, projects, regency on October 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Huswifes I love huswifes, they are such useful sewing accessories, just the thing to carry your threads, needles and scissors. They were also the thoughtful gift a Regency gentlewoman often made for friends and family too. Here’s a few photos and links to interesting huswifes. Here’s photos of the huswife I made for my book: [...]
200 Years of Decorative Arts
Posted in Design, Embroidery, Jane Austen, Quilting, tagged 1920s, 1930s, 1940s crafts, applique, craft, Embroidery, Jennifer Isaacs, Patchwork, pokerwork, Quilting, regency, silk, Tapestry, Victorian Embroidery, women on September 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
At one of my talks earlier in the year, a lovely fellow crafter asked me about how she would find out what kinds of craft her ancestors had worked. I pointed her in the direction of an interesting book on Needlework in Australia (Marion Fletcher, 1989), but another book is a bit of a favorite [...]
What Is It With Corsets?
Posted in Design, Jane Austen, tagged bodice, corsets, dress, fashion, regency, stays, textiles on August 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I must admit that I don’t really understand the corset thing. I know as a craft historian I should be more understanding of such a key item in women’s wardrobes right up until the 1960s (some older women continued to wear their corsets well into the 20th century). But I sympathise with the annoyance [...]
Curious Fact: Georgian Kitchens
Posted in Architecture, tagged australia, britain, fire, georgian, heat, homestead, house, kitchens, ovens, rain, ranges, regency, terrace on May 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Something I’ve noticed looking at Regency and Georgian houses in Australia and the UK….. Kitchens in British houses over this period (1714 to 1830) are in the basement of the house (particularly if its a terrace house) or in the back of a free standing dwelling. In Australia kitchens were built in separate blocks away [...]
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