Renaissance Sewing Tools
Collection by Luke Knowlton
Sewing equipment used by tailors, 1450-1650.
Gerard David | The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
sewing basket Date: ca. 1510–15 Gerard David - Detail from The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard. 15th century Netherlandish painting in the MET.
Thimble | German, probably Nuremberg | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Inscription: Inscribed around rim, in Plattdeutsch dialect: Zier (?) leib unnde mich mer ist beidte ir err. 1577 [trans.: If you adorn your body and me, we are both honored]Marking: On the rim, after the date: an arrow (probably a thimble maker's mark, unidentified)
Kleermaker, Gillis van Scheyndel (I), 1638 - Rijksmuseum
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Thimbles, needles, shears, medieval. National museum- Copenhagen
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Jan Brueghel the Elder & Joos van Mompers, detail of Flemish Market and Washing Place, 1620, Prado (detail)
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Rosalie's Medieval Woman - Sewing Tools
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Record ID: BERK-9BCBC7 - POST MEDIEVAL linen smoother
A spherical dark glass smoother used to give linen a shiny gloss. This type of linen smoother had an integral and indented central glass handle, which no longer survives, and has a concave base and convex top. It is similar to 18th century examples
Quick and Easy Buttons
While working on my projects for the Realm of Venus costume challenge, I decided I wanted to try a different way to make buttons for my new muff. Vecellio mentions gold and crystal buttons being used to keep them closed. My digging and research through the Elizabethan Costume Page on Facebook lead me to this lovely piece of documentation. 6/30/14 Note: Katrine De Saint Brieuc was the original poster of this image to the Elixabethan Costume Page on Facebook. Thank you for sharing your…