This ancient device for hand sewing today remains in the distant past, despite its convenience and beauty.
Many today, when the word "sewing" is used, they will think about a little seamstress or remember the brave soldier Schweik, and only lovers of the history of sewing art know that sewing is an old tool that has helped needlewomen sew for a long time.
Photo: Kizhi Museum Reserve Sewing machines began to appear in the villages only in the second half of the 19th century, and this despite the fact that farmers had to sew a lot. Sewing made this process easier. It consisted of a wooden base with a vertical column ending in an elastic pillow of linen towels. As a rule, the craftswoman sat on the bottom of the sewing machine in order to fix it in place, with a pin she pinned one end of the fabric to the pillow, and the second she pulled it with her left hand, working with her right. Thanks to the tension and fixation of the fabric, the work was faster and more comfortable.
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Photo: Kizhi Museum Reserve In the video below you can see how this process looks:
Sewing was very popular, and not only peasants, but also needlewomen from wealthy houses used them. Therefore, sewing was often made not only utilitarian, but also beautiful, covered with carvings and paintings.Even with the advent of sewing machines, they did not immediately recede into the past and coexisted for a long time in parallel.
Photo: Kizhi Museum Reserve A slightly different type of seamstress was also in use: metal, with a special screw, which made it possible to securely fasten the sewing machine to the table.
Photo: pinterest By the way, in the West, sewing was most often called a sewing bird, that is, a sewing bird, because it was a bird, as a rule, that decorated such sewing.
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