Handicraft Collection

Quaker women spinning in church
Quaker ladies doing their chores while at worship services. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Dutch colonists in early New Amsterdam
Dutch settlers outdoors along the Battery, New Amsterdam, 1600s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

Quilting party in western Virginia, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Weaver at his loom in Europe, 1600s. Hand-colored engraving of a 17th-century illustration by J. Amman

Seamstress, 1800s
Woman sewing to earn money at home, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Woman stitching a patchwork quilt, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Young Puritan woman reading while spinning at her wheel. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Old Knickerbocker family around the tea table, New York Colony, 1700s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Pioneer girl spinning
Pioneer woman at her spinning-wheel by the fireside. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Knitting needles and handspun wool yarn at a Yorktown reenactment, Virginia. Digital photograph

Old-time shoemaker working outdoors. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Cobblers tools at a reenactment at Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

Women decorating pottery on the roof of a Pueblo village, New Mexico. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Making silk in early China
Silk-making in the early days of China. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Patriotic American colonial woman spinning to avoid importing British cloth before the Revolutionary War. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Man weaving on a large hand-loom. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Women spinning with large wheels, 1800s. Hand colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Young girl learning to sew, frontier America. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Women sewing at home by light from a window. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Weaving on a laptop hand-loom, Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

Woman reenactor sewing, Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

Woman reenactor sewing, Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

African-American woman reenactor sewing at Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

Woman reenactor knitting at Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

Woman reenactor knitting at Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

Woman reenactor sewing at Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

African-American woman reenactor in a sewing circle at Yorktown, Virginia. Digital photograph

Knitting needles and handspun wool at a Yorktown reenactment, Virginia. Digital photograph

Native woman spinning cotton in the ancient way, Mexico. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustratioin

Burmese women and a spinning wheel
Burmese woman spinning, another at a loom (left), and a woman (right) from Ava, former capital of Burma. Antique hand-colored print

A rural English cottage, with a woman spinning, a traveler, and a hunter, 1600s. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of a 17th-century illustration

Chiefs throne inlaid with ebony and ivory, Cameroons. Printed color halftone reproduction of a photograph

Washington family at Mount Vernon
Domestic life at Mount Vernon, 1700s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Pueblo women firing pottery, New Mexico, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Colonial spinning wheel. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Woman weaving on the porch of her Appalachian cabin, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Ladies enjoying their sewing circle, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Reenactors weaving on belt looms at a Revolutionary War reenactment, Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

Reenactor weaving on a belt loom at a Revolutionary War reenactment, Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

Womens sewing circle reenacted at Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

Woman reenactor knitting at Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

Woman reenactor knitting at Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

Knitting needles and handspun wool at a Yorktown reenactment, Virginia. Digital photograph

Knitting needles and handspun wool at a Yorktown reenactment, Virginia. Digital photograph

Norwegian immigrant homestead, Old World Wisconsin
Norwegian immigrant farm woman reenactor spinning wool in the Kvaale House, built circa 1848, at Old World Wisconsin, Eagle WI. Digital photograph

Handmade candles drying, Charles Towne Landing Historical Site, reconstructed settlement in South Carolina. Digital photograph

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