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 |
Sew Retro
Posted in Design, History, Sewing Projects, tagged 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, craft projects, flappers, knitting basket, needlecase, pin cushion, Sew Retro, sewing, sewing basket, sewing projects, thrift, victorian, Vintage inspired craft projects on April 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Book Review: Sew Retro by Judi Ketteler I very much suspect I’m a bit behind the times in reviewing this book as I brought it when I first saw it in Australia in November and have taken this long to write about it! But then I wanted to have a few photos of projects I’ve [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Quilled Hair, Shades & Berlin Wool Work
Posted in Embroidery, Jane Austen, tagged Beading, Berlin Wool Work, Carpetwork, Embroidery, human hair, Lanyon Homestead, Patchwork, quilling, Quilting, sewing, Tapestry, Victorian Crafts, Victorian Embroidery, Wickerwork on July 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’m giving a Victorian Embroidery craft workshop at Lanyon Homestead in Canberra on the 25 July so I’m busy doing my research about the links between Victorian Embroidery and the Lanyon Homestead. The collection is not original to the site but the curators at the time it was established as a museum in the 1980s [...]
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