Q-My mother’s sewing chest is made to look like a small trunk with high legs. It is the height of a sofa arm, so the sewing and knitting work inside is easy to reach. The chest top has two lids that ...

Sewing was an everyday activity for the 19th-century housewife. Often, a special table that held sewing supplies and needlework was kept near the living room. The sewing table became a special ...

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Sewing was as important as cooking in centuries past. The most valuable things in an 18th-century American home were linens, bedcovers and drapes. The wealthy could import fabrics from Europe. The ...

Sewing was an everyday activity for the 19th-century housewife. Often, a special table that held sewing supplies and needlework was kept near the living room. The sewing table became a special ...

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Free-motion quilting, preloaded alphabets, and hundreds of stitches—today’s sewing machines do more than stitch in a straight line. By Carol Benton, Stacey L. Nash Updated Oct 13, 2023 12:40 PM EDT We ...

Check out Karen Keane's appraisal of a Singer oak-cased sewing machine & table, ca. 1900, in Alaska Native Heritage Center, Hour 2. Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS ...