Old-Time Happy Housewifery

Album: Hand Made

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand. ~ Willa Cather

Album: Needlework

My mother kept a gentlewoman to teach us all kinds of needlework which shows that I was not brought up to an idle life. ~ Anne Halket (1623-1699)

Album: Needle & Thread

It is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never more at home with their own hearts than while so occupied. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne The Marble Faun

Album: Quilting

Needle-work, in all its forms of use, elegance and ornament, has ever been the appropriate occupation of woman. ~ Lydia H Sigourney, 1837

Album: Madame Dronet

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting. ~ Benjamin Franklin