Thank you for reading my article in The Camp Chase Gazette. Here are the images from the article in color.
To learn how to make your own housewife based on original sewing cases, please see my new book, Fanciful Utility: Victorian Sewing Cases and Needle-books, avaliable this fall of 2011. I am happy to offer sewing cases and needle-books for sale. Please check my Etsy Shop for what is available. I will also custom make sewing cases. (Check out Barbara’s sewing case.)
Original sewing cases closed. At the top is the structured sewing case also shown open. At the bottom is a rolled case with a 4” wide ribbon on the outside, silk on the inside and held closed with the calico button.
Rolled case shown open. The exterior is a 4″ wide ribbon. The inside is a small print wool with a silk pocket. The needle-pages are missing.
Original fold-over sewing case with a central covered pasteboard box, multi-colored needle pages, and silk pocket. The exterior is a black leather bound with wool tape.
Fold-over style sewing case based on the original sewing case above. This one has a cotton interior and mono-chromatic pages.
Rolled cases in the style of many original cases. These two cases are made of cotton inside and out with wool pages and MOP buttons.
Additional Rolled Cases:
