She also pulled loads of beautiful pieces out of the colllection for us to see. They made me wonder about the hundreds and thousands of hours spent over the years by women just stitching away.......Hours we now spend in front of screens , TV, computers, kindles.....!
This piece of drawn thread-work was a sample piece for one of the large departnment stores
after all the time painstakingly creating this incredible work by hand, a customer could wander in and just chop off a sample from the end!
There were samplers , and little garments, whitework quilts...
I left with a head full of ideas - which was the point of the excercise
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