Michaela Cardo
@historyunlaced.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Queen’s/Durham, working on gift exchange, dress, and sociability in mid-19th century Britain! she/her
The story published with the engraving in the British Workman reveals that Jack, the embroiderer, was working on the sampler as a Christmas gift for his mother at home. This ship-bound, masculine expression of gift labour is an exciting prospect for my continuing work on dress gift exchange!
December 2, 2024 at 3:15 PM
The story published with the engraving in the British Workman reveals that Jack, the embroiderer, was working on the sampler as a Christmas gift for his mother at home. This ship-bound, masculine expression of gift labour is an exciting prospect for my continuing work on dress gift exchange!
It is a relatively well-known fact that sailors could sew. But this almost domestic scene of the embroiderer and his crewmate, working on a sampler of a design he found within a men’s periodical, challenges our assumptions around needlework, femininity, masculinity, and male homosociability.
December 2, 2024 at 3:15 PM
It is a relatively well-known fact that sailors could sew. But this almost domestic scene of the embroiderer and his crewmate, working on a sampler of a design he found within a men’s periodical, challenges our assumptions around needlework, femininity, masculinity, and male homosociability.