Laundresses who collect clothes and linen from homes, launder and press them, and return them for a pittance. Seamstresses working long hours with an uncertain future.
Bonnier
Strictly the Eve of Saint the Baptist, it’s marked in the Nordic and other European countries with bonfires, feasting and dancing.
View by many as the start of a slippery slope to prostitution, dressmaking demanded long hours of work in return for a pittance/
One of the three great masters who took realist oil painting into the twentieth century: we commemorate the centenary of his death in August.
What made images of women sewing so popular in the late 19th century? Here are some of the best from about 1885 to the Nabis in the 20th century.
Two young women painters left Stockholm to study in Paris in 1883. Good friends, their paths diverged, but their paintings were full of light – including a real gem.
The Eclectic Light Company 