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Ghost sign for English Sewing Cotton Co. Ltd. on East Park Road, 2024.
No full textGhost sign for English Sewing Cotton Co. Ltd. The sign reads: 'Thread Sales ... English Sewing...'.
This likely refers to the English Sewing Cotton Co. which was registered in 1897 after the combination of 14 different sewing firms across England, including the Leicester-based Crown Cotton Mills which was founded in 1820 by J. T. Raworth. According to the Science Museum Group, the union of the 14 firms was 'established in order to unite the principal English firms and companies engaged in the manufacture of sewing, crochet, knitting, mending and other cottons as well as subsidiary businesses engaged in cotton spinning, doubling, dyeing, bleaching and polishing'. After a series of further acquisitions and mergers, the company was renamed Tootal Ltd. before being acquired by Coats Viyella
Ghost sign for English Sewing Cotton Co. Ltd. on East Park Road, 2015.
No full textGhost sign for English Sewing Cotton Co. Ltd. The sign reads: 'Thread Sales ... English Sewing...'.
This likely refers to the English Sewing Cotton Co. which was registered in 1897 after the combination of 14 different sewing firms across England, including the Leicester-based Crown Cotton Mills which was founded in 1820 by J. T. Raworth. According to the Science Museum Group, the union of the 14 firms was 'established in order to unite the principal English firms and companies engaged in the manufacture of sewing, crochet, knitting, mending and other cottons as well as subsidiary businesses engaged in cotton spinning, doubling, dyeing, bleaching and polishing'. After a series of further acquisitions and mergers, the company was renamed Tootal Ltd. before being acquired by Coats Viyella
Compliments of New Home of Sewing Machine Co.
No full textRecto: [imprinted] Compliments New Home of Sewing Machine Co. [descriptive text not transcribed]. Copyright 1891. J.Ottmann Lith.Co. Puck Bldg. N.Y
Sewing the Self: Needlework, Femininity and Domesticity In Interwar Britain
No full textThis thesis looks at design practice as a method of investigating the relationship between design and identity in interwar Britain; in particular it considers design from the perspective of practice, not solely as the final object or the story of the maker. For it is in the process of making that the varied aspects of design as it is practiced are configured to create the greatest impact on everyday life. This research proposes that the quest to construct one’s identity, in particular a feminine identity, can be demonstrated by the making of goods and objects through the traditionally feminine practice of sewing and needlework, specifically those made at home. It argues that home sewing, as an understudied everyday practice, was intrinsically bound up with ideas of who women were, how they imagined themselves, and how their feminine identities were represented. Between the wars, home-sewing was an integral daily practice for middle-class women that left indelible memories of not only the items made, but of specific types of sewing and design practice, who it was made for and how it was used. It also explores these specific practices during a period of enormous change- culturally, technologically and politically – and particularly important for this study are the themes of femininity and domesticity, as well as the boundaries of private and public life in relation to modernity. Methodologically it focuses on sewing practices by utilizing mass media, specific objects and oral histories to elucidate this. This thesis considers the breadth and extent of home sewing as an everyday practice aligning individual narratives, original source material and theoretical analysis
Sewing Samples
No full textPhotograph - Sewing samples from Fanny Makepeace Jameson's time in school and a small spool of thread (2 pages)Artifact
Sewing Patterns
No full textPhotograph - Homemade sewing patterns cut from newspapers and a copied transfer pattern of flowers for embroidery, Byemoor, AB (4 pages
Sewing the Body of Christ : Eucharist wafer souvenirs stitched into fifteenth-century manuscripts, primarily in the Netherlands
No full textBooks of hours in the fifteenth century occupied several social and devotional roles. People used them to store small objects, including metal badges. Although the cultural practice of sewing in badges was widespread in the late Middle Ages, nearly all of the badges were removed (by later collectors). This article examines the practice by considering needle holes and offsets in the soft parchment, which indicate the shape of the badges and where they were attached. Noting that vast majority of metal offsets in books of hours are round, the author posits that these were not impressed by pilgrims’ badges, as is often repeated in the scholarly literature, but rather by tokens that commemorate having taken the Eucharist. The round badges are the same size and shape and bear the same imagery as host wafers. Owners stitched such badges into their books’ margins at locations relevant to Eucharistic piety. When they were sewn into books, Eucharist badges reconfigured the book as a shrine that recorded a votary’s pursuit of Communion.Peer reviewe
4-H Sewing Club
No full textHolli Johnson, Carol J. Luthi, and Kathleen Kenney model the slacks, aprons and scarves they made for the 4-H Snoopy sewing club
Sewing Machine
No full textPatent for "a new Improved Sewing-Machine" that "has for its object to provide more useful and efficient machines than those now in use.
Hand Device For Operating Sewing Machines
No full textPatent for a hand device for operating sewing machines. This invention relates to hand driven sewing machines. Illustrations included
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