Washington Memorialized
Today marks the 214th anniversary of the death of George Washington, memorialized here in a Chinese reverse-on-glass painting. I suspect that the figure of the ...
Tag: embroidery
Missing the ‘maid’?
Sarah Brown had a sister, Ruth Smith. Ruth was good with a needle, and there is an extant chair seat made by Ruth. I’d always thought, in a fuzzy, not-thi...
Sampler Resources
Sew 18th Century had a fun post recently about “Which State House is it?” I’m not usually a sampler fan (you know this is not an area in which...
Details. All in the Details.
This image is from the fantastic VADS site‘s gallery of pockets. I need new pockets, or a pocket update and overhaul, so I went looking for inspiration. ...
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