Description
Wonderful Civil War period housewife. The personal sewing kit, affectionately called a “Housewife”, was an indispensable tool carried by Civil War soldiers both North and South. A typical housewife contained needles, pins, thread, scissors, extra buttons, and sometimes patches of extra fabric for mending holes in cloths. This is one of the larger examples measuring 4.5″ long. Very nice example is good condition and of the typical construction with a central padded cylinder acting as pin cushion and receptacle for a thimble, with a long roll-up panel of glazed waterproof material lined on the inside with silk. This example contains several dozen needles and a wad of silk thread and several small pieces of silk cloth. There is some small amount of mothing to the upper pin cushion area. These are getting hard to find. Really neat personal item!
