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Naaigerei | Artikel: Marguerite McLoughlin's Sewing Tools

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By Tracy Hill

To most 21st-century women, sewing is a hobby, productive and fulfilling, but not essential to daily survival. Until the middle of the 19th century, only the wealthiest women could afford not to sew, though many upper class ladies embroidered and did fine needlework for amusement and decoration. For most women, sewing, mending, and knitting were necessary to ensure that one's family was warmly and properly dressed. In addition, working class women were sometimes employed to produce clothing and other handmade items for more affluent households.

The Industrial Revolution of the mid-1800s brought many sweeping changes to society, including the growth of the middle class. Many women now had time to spend on new activities – time they were expected to use productively, but not engaged in work that was considered below their station. Working outside the home was generally considered unacceptable, so what could they do to occupy themselves? Sewing, needlework, and crafts of all sorts were the answer! There was a virtual explosion in the publishing of "how-to" books and patterns, and a wider variety of affordable materials was available than ever before. "Fancy work" became clearly distinguished from "plain sewing" and "plain knitting" – one elegant and refined, the other a necessary chore. Sewing was an important element in the education of girls.

For the women who left their homes to travel west, needlework was more than a routine task. It brought something familiar and comforting to their lives in a new territory, and provided a connection to women of differing backgrounds and cultures. Women wrote in diaries about meeting women in neighboring wagon trains, and having a wonderful time exchanging patterns (Butruille 1993: 98-99; Macdonald 1988: 84-85; Schlissel 1982: 99). It likely reminded them of the friends and homes they left behind.

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