Needleworker's work box; 1857
date: label: Date made
content: 1857
notes: label: Description
content: An ornately crafted sewing workbox to hold needleworking tools. Made in 1857 of hand-tooled and joined hardwood. Twelve fitted compartments, arranged in a series of three each, one of which forms a cover panel fronted with a mirror. Equipped with needlework tools, such as needles, hooks, scissors, penknife, pinchusion, and spool holders. Also four miniature glass bottles in fitted compartments.. Made by the donor's husband's grandfather, who added his intials and three symbols or motifs of his Oddfellow's Lodge to the chest. According to the donor, the maker used wood from cigar boxes.
label: Description
content: Women and men alike take pride in the tools they use. This finely crafted chest celebrates the needleworker's skills. Perhaps the ornate detailing of this chest was dictated by the elegant environment of the needleworker's home.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.E386739
label: catalog number
content: E386739
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Workbox, sewing
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 11 in x 6 in; 13.97 cm x 27.94 cm x 15.24 cm