Sewing box
A sewing box is used to store sewing utensils such as buttons , scissors , needles, threader and different colored threads and threads . The storage containers with many sorting options also include mobile sewing boxes, which are easier to move because of their weight in their mobile form. The latter came into use, especially after the Second World War , when, due to the lack of textile goods on offer, “sewing yourself” was capitalized.
The idiom “chatting out of the sewing box” means revealing something or making something accessible to someone that would otherwise remain hidden from him, ie “offering a glimpse into the sewing box”. This expression is taken up in Theodor Fontane's social novel Effi Briest and receives its literary character. A packet of letters is found in Effi's sewing box, revealing Effi's extramarital relationship with a major over six years ago. Effi's husband kills the major in a duel, casts his wife away and forbids her to interact with her own daughter.
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- ↑ Wolfgang Seidel : How did the storm get into the water glass . dtv, Munich 2011, p. 135.