Cottage Industry Collection (page 2)

Leather and its uses for purses, boots, gloves, saddles, luggage, etc. 1871. Creator: Unknown
Leather and its uses for purses, boots, gloves, saddles, luggage, etc. 1871. The various processes for treating leather, and the trades using it for clothing and manufacturing

The Cobblers Happy Family, (c1900). Creator: Unknown
The Cobblers Happy Family, (c1900). Domestic scene showing a cobblers workshop in the family home; the cobbler and his assistant making and repairing shoes

An Outdoor Scene of Women at Work, (c1900). Creator: Unknown
An Outdoor Scene of Women at Work, (c1900). Women winding wool and using spinning wheels in Llangollen, north-east Wales. Print after a watercolour made late 18th-early 19th century by Julius Caesar

Winding Off Silk, c1600, (1903). From Social England, Volume IV, edited by H.D. Traill, D.C.L. and J. S. Mann, M.A. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1903]

Woman using a loom, Sweden, 1936. From Peoples of the World in Pictures, edited by Harold Wheeler, published by Odhams Press Ltd (London, 1936)

A cutlers shop, c1880. A print from Great Industries of Great Britain, Volume I, published by Cassell Petter and Galpin, (London, Paris, New York, c1880)

Spinning Wheel, c1890. Artist: Charles Gillot
Spinning Wheel, c1890. Illustration from the the booklet Au Japon, Types, Costumes & Moeurs, (Paris, c1890)

Turpentine Distillery, North Carolina, 1870. Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey
Turpentine Distillery, North Carolina, 1870. By 1870 there were 147 turpentine distilleries in North Carolina, USA. Illustration from Adventures of America, 1857-1900, by John A Kouwenhoven

Pillow lace maker, late 18th-early 19th century. Artist: WN Gardner
Pillow lace maker, late 18th-early 19th century. An idealised picture of a Bedfordshire lacemaker working at her cottage door. The pattern to be worked would be pricked out on strip of parchment

An Irish Cottage Industry - Flowering

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