Housewife

Name

Housewife

Brief description

Housewife or sewing case pieced from three different fabrics and trimmed with light blue silk tape. The inside material is an 18th-century embroidered silk, the fragment of a larger design. It is worked in shades of green, yellow, cream and pink with silver threads on ribbed cream silk. It has two red wool leaves. The other fabrics are late-18th century block-printed cottons in shades of pink and red, brown one has green and gold also.

Dimensions

length: 9in
width: 2 3/4in

Material

silk
wool
cotton

Production person

Un identified

Production date

circa 1780-1820

References

Lynne Zacek Bassett, Just a Housewife, Piecework, May/June 2003.

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