Highlights : Work : Women: Textile making

Subcategory Women: Textile making contains 12 item(s).

	"Children at Play" Quilt c. 1800 1983.12 This quilt depicting "Children at Play" illustrates how quilts served a decorative function as well as providing warmth in unheated bedchambers.
	Spinning Jenny c. 1800 1895.20 This is a rare, smaller domestic version of the water-powered spinning jenny, invented in England.
	Flax Wheel c. 1775 1914.07.28 Although some women used foot or flax wheels, transforming flax into linen was a laborious and complex process generally less common in America than spinning more easily processed sheep's wool into yarn.
	Whole Cloth Quilt c. 1798 BR.03 This "whole-cloth" 18th century quilt is made of three layers of wool; the top layer and bottom layer are of fabric and the middle, or filler layer, is fiber (often sheep's wool) all held together with running stitches in elaborate designs.
	Embroidered pocket 1760-1780 1915.18.04 Throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries pockets were not attached to women's and girls' clothing.
	Hand Stamp c. 1775 1882.073.01 This carved wooden block would be used to print a design on cloth.
	African-American woman sewing 1856-1858 1994.20.03.54 Like his other drawings of slave and southern plantation life, this interior sketch of slave quarters by George Fuller (1822-1884) of Deerfield, Massachusetts, carefully details the spaces in which slaves worked and lived.
	Flail 1850-1900 1985.0011.01 A flail is used to separate, by hand, the seeds of grain (usually wheat) from the husks that protect them.
	Lace Making Pillow c. 1820 1881.028.01
	"Cloth from the Mill" advertisement Sep 3, 1910 L02.160 This advertisement was run just as the woolen mills in Holyoke hit a high point in the years before World War I.