Sewing table

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A sewing table or sewing cabinet is a piece of furniture that usually contains one drawer or compartments, in the case of the sewing cabinet several, for storing sewing utensils.

The sewing tables manufactured after the spread of the sewing machine are usually designed in size and height so that a sewing machine can be placed on them. Sewing machines are also produced with a frame into which the sewing machine can be lowered so that a kind of sewing table is created.

history

Sewing tables were already known in the Biedermeier period , during which time they were often very laboriously worked and had their place in the living room so that the housewife could do sewing and needlework there. In the time when holes in stockings and other damaged areas of clothing were repeatedly stuffed, this sewing utensil had a much more important function than it is today with cheaper and more durable clothing made with synthetic fiber components . As with Henriette Davidis Instructions for the practical housewife at the end of the 19th century can be read so that the housewife “does not lose time by looking for and fetching all sorts of small things that serve this purpose” would be a most useful Christmas or birthday present. ”She pointed out that“ in order to keep things tidy, locking and keeping the key on a ribbon is essential ”.

In 1862 a women's magazine reminded us that in earlier times not every housewife had a sewing table or sewing box. Even at that time, many bourgeois and peasant women were satisfied with an upholstered brick or a sewing sink screwed to the dining table, "nothing of all the luxurious luxury of fine wood, with lacquer and mirror glass, nothing of all the compartments, boxes and rolls, through which the fashionable sewing table resembles certain apparatuses of the pocket player ”. For the luxurious sewing table, it was “the luxury of the times - America supplied the wood and India the polish to which wood and iron workers from different countries and classes worked”.

See also

Web links

Commons : Sewing boxes  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Henriette Davidis: The housewife: practical instructions for the independent and economical management of city and country houses . 6th improved and increased edition, EA Seemann, Leipzig 1872, p. 193.
  2. ↑ Berthold Sigismund: At the sewing table . In: Freya - Illustrated sheets for the educated world . 2nd year, 1862, Krais & Hoffmann, Stuttgart, p. 355.