Cottage Industry Collection

The Lace Maker, c1664. Artist: Jan Vermeer
The Lace Maker, c1664. The woman is making pillow lace which uses a strip of parchment on which the pattern has been pricked out

The Lace-Maker, 1885. Creator: Georg Pauli
The Lace-Maker, 1885

Lady Hamilton, by George Romney, in the late exhibition of Old Masters, Burlington House, 1876. Creator: Unknown
Lady Hamilton, by George Romney, in the late exhibition of Old Masters, Burlington House, 1876. That too celebrated female beauty, Emma Lyons, a Welsh servant-girl

The Diligent Mother, mid-late 18th century. Creator: Workshop of Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin
The Diligent Mother, mid-late 18th century

Kondo Sato, c1802. Creator: Hokusai
Kondo Sato, c1802

The Holy Family in Joseph's workshop, 1747-1812. Creator: Tethart Philip Christian Haag
The Holy Family in Joseph's workshop, 1747-1812

Silk Culture in China: preparing raw silk, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Silk Culture in China: preparing raw silk, 1857. When the worms have cast their several skins...they are removed...preparatory to their spinning

Woman spinning, 1652-1662. Creator: Nicolaes Maes
Woman spinning, 1652-1662. Alternative title: woman spinning, a reel on the wall

The sleeping lace worker, 1795-1873. Creator: Ignatius van Regemorter
The sleeping lace worker, 1795-1873. Woman dozing as a cat tangles the threads of her lace work. Design for a print

The spinner, 1741-1820. Creator: Abraham Delfos
The spinner, 1741-1820

Interior of a Cobbler's Shop, c.1650. Creator: David Ryckaert III
Interior of a Cobbler's Shop, c.1650

Peasant Family in their Cottage, 1817. Creator: Cornelis Kruseman
Peasant Family in their Cottage, 1817. Mother spinning yarn as she minds her child, while her husband fills his clay pipe with tobacco

Interior with Fisherman and Man beside a Bobbin and Spool, 1663. Creator: Gerritsz Quiringh van Brekelenkam
Interior with Fisherman and Man beside a Bobbin and Spool, 1663

Peasant Woman Spinning, 1640-1677. Creator: Thomas Wijck
Peasant Woman Spinning, 1640-1677. Mother at the spinning wheel, her child sits in a chair designed as a toilet, with a built-in chamber pot, and plays with the family dog

Interior with Woman at the Spinning Wheel, 1661. Creator: Esaias Boursse
Interior with Woman at the Spinning Wheel, 1661

"The Industrious Needlewomen" - painted by M. Trayer - from the Exhibition of French Artists, 1856. We are happy to learn that the Exhibition which has been opened in Liverpool

A Weaver's Workshop, 1652. Creator: Johannes Dircksz. van Oudenrogge
A Weaver's Workshop, 1652. Men warming themselves at the fire while a woman works in the background

Old Woman Spinning, 1650-1660. Creator: Nicolaes Maes
Old Woman Spinning, 1650-1660

Travel views of Europe, between 1904 and 1938. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Travel views of Europe, between 1904 and 1938. Women textile workers, and dog sniffing manure

At the China Repairer's, 1891. Creator: Wenzel Tornoe
At the China Repairer's, 1891

A telegram, 1893. Creator: Julius Exner
A telegram, 1893. A distraught young woman holds a message bearing bad news. On the table are balls of yarn she has spun with her spinning wheel

Comforts Committee of Navy League, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Comforts Committee of Navy League, between 1910 and 1920. USA. First World War: women using circular knitting machines to produce socks for sailors

Elderly woman sitting on porch spinning, c1894. Creator: Charles Richards Dodge
Elderly woman sitting on porch spinning, c1894

Sorting and stringing the "golden leaf" at the tobacco barn, near Hartsville, South Carolina, 1938
Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden leaf" at the tobacco barn, preparatory to curing. Note sled by which tobacco is brought to the barn from the field

The International Exhibition - "Girl of the Parish of Rattvik, in Decarlia, by the Fireside", by Johan Frederick Hockert, 1862. Engraving of a painting

Woman on Veranda, Spinning... 18th century. Creator: Shunsho
Woman on Veranda, Spinning; another Pounding Cloth on Rock in Foreground, 18th century

Portion of an old broadcloth manufactury, Cranbrook, Kent, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Portion of an old broadcloth manufactury, Cranbrook, Kent, 1857....in this locality...cloth manufacture was at one period held in high repute; and Hasted, the historian of Kent

Grandmother with her grandson, 1875. Creator: Kristian Zahrtmann
Grandmother with her grandson, 1875

Daughter of Negro tenant churning butter. Randolph County, North Carolina, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Daughter of Negro tenant churning butter. Randolph County, North Carolina

Pottery butter churn on porch of Negro tenant... Randolph County, North Carolina, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Pottery butter churn on porch of Negro tenant family. The churn is covered with a cloth to keep the flies out. Randolph County, North Carolina

Pottery butter churn on porch of Negro tenant family, Randolph County, N Carolina, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Pottery butter churn on porch of Negro tenant family. The churn is covered with a cloth to keep the flies out. Randolph County, North Carolina

Hamagawa, from the series "A Record of a Journey to Enoshima (Enoshima kiko)"
Hamagawa, from the series " A Record of a Journey to Enoshima (Enoshima kiko)", 1833. A group of people making nori (seaweed) mats for use in sushi

Spinning, c. 1898. Creator: Emilie V. Clarkson
Spinning, c. 1898. Photogravure, no. 18 from the portfolio " American Pictorial Photography, series ii" (1901); edition 34/150

The Making of Silk Floss, ca. 1790. Creator: Kitagawa Utamaro
The Making of Silk Floss, ca. 1790

A Woman Spinning, Plate 4 from Five Feminine Occupations, ca. 1640-57

Two Women Sewing, Plate 1 from Five Feminine Occupations, ca. 1640-57

At the Spinning Wheel, c. 1884. Creator: Otto Henry Bacher
At the Spinning Wheel, c. 1884. A Wheel of Three Generations in 1884

The Dissolute Household. Creator: Pieter Balten
The Dissolute Household

The Visit to the Spinner, c. 1495 / 1503. Creator: Israhel van Meckenem
The Visit to the Spinner, c. 1495/1503

Lace Makers, Bruges, 1912. Creator: Harriet Blackstone
Lace Makers, Bruges, 1912

Saying Grace, c. 1650 / 1655. Creator: Frans van Mieris
Saying Grace, c. 1650/1655

The Seamstress, 1853. Creator: Jean Francois Millet
The Seamstress, 1853

The Wool Carder, ca. 1855-56. Creator: Jean Francois Millet
The Wool Carder, ca. 1855-56

Shepherdess Knitting, 1862. Creator: Jean Francois Millet
Shepherdess Knitting, 1862

The Spinner, 1853. Creator: Jacques-Adrien Lavieille
The Spinner, 1853

Poem by Henjo Sojo, ca. 1766. ca. 1766. Creator: Suzuki Harunobu
Poem by Henjo Sojo, ca. 1766

Reading the News at the Weavers Cottage, 1673. Creator: Adriaen van Ostade
Reading the News at the Weavers Cottage, 1673

The Lacemaker, ca. 1656. Creator: Nicolaes Maes
The Lacemaker, ca. 1656

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