Handicraft Gallery

HOUS2A-00057

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

© North Wind Picture Archives

1700s, 18th Century, American, Art, Chore, Colonial, Colonist, Colony, Craft, Daily Life, Daughter, Dog, Drink, Dutch, Family, Father, Female, Handcraft, Handicraft, Historic, History, Home, House, House Wife, Illustration, Kitchen, Knickerbocker, Male, Man, Mother, New Netherland, New York, News Paper, North America, Pet, Read, Reading, Sew, Sewing, Tea, Tea Pot, Traditional, United States, Us A, Vintage, Woman, Women

EVRV2A-00015

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

© North Wind Picture Archives

1700s, 1760s, 1770s, 18th Century, American, American Revolution, Art, Child, Chore, Cloth, Colonial, Colonist, Colony, Craft, Daughters Of Liberty, Defiance, Female, Freedom, Girl, Handicraft, Historic, History, Illustration, Independence, Liberty, Massachusetts, New England, New York, North America, Pennsylvania, Protest, Revolt, Revolution, Revolutionary War, Sons Of Liberty, Spin, Spinning, Spinning Wheel, Stamp Act, Tax, Tax Protest, Taxation, Taxation Without Representation, Thread, United States, Us A, Vintage, Woman, Wool, Yarn

HOUS2D-00024

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

© N.Carter/North Wind Picture Archives

1700s, 18th Century, American, Belt, Belt Loom, Chore, Cloth, Craft, Daily Life, Female, Hand, Handcraft, Handicraft, Historic, History, Home Made, Living History, Loom, National Park, North America, Textile, Traditional, United States, Us A, Vintage, Virginia, Weave, Weaver, Weaving, Woman, Yorktown