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</div> <div class="teasers_box top"> <div class="teaser post-2394 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-1700s category-1800s category-1900s category-antiques-collectibles category-crafts category-knitting category-needlework category-textiles category-woodware-treen" id="post-2394"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150618025804/http://www.homethingspast.com/darning-eggs-mushrooms/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to Darning eggs, balls, & mushrooms">Darning eggs, balls, & mushrooms</a></h2> <div class="format_teaser entry-content"> <a class="post_image_link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150618025804/http://www.homethingspast.com/darning-eggs-mushrooms/" title="Permanent link to Darning eggs, balls, & mushrooms"><img class="thumb alignleft" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150618025804im_/http://www.homethingspast.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/darning-tn.jpg" width="100" height="173" alt="Thumbnail image for Darning eggs, balls, & mushrooms"/></a> <p>A hundred years ago could anyone imagine that darning tools would now be unrecognisable except to antiques or crafts enthusiasts? There always used to be a steady supply of darning in the family mending bag. A woman sitting darning was a common sight, and so was a darning egg. Inside a stocking or sock with […]</p> </div> <a class="teaser_link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150618025804/http://www.homethingspast.com/darning-eggs-mushrooms/" rel="nofollow">Read more</a> </div> <div class="teaser teaser_right post-1080 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-1800s category-1900s category-crafts category-knitting category-needlework category-textiles" id="post-1080"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150618025804/http://www.homethingspast.com/rag-rugs-1800s/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to Rag rugs – hand-made craft in an industrial age">Rag rugs – hand-made craft in an industrial age</a></h2> <div class="format_teaser entry-content"> <a class="post_image_link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150618025804/http://www.homethingspast.com/rag-rugs-1800s/" title="Permanent link to Rag rugs – hand-made craft in an industrial age"><img class="thumb alignleft" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150618025804im_/http://www.homethingspast.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/rag-rug-tn.png" width="100" height="148" alt="rag rug"/></a> <p>Rugs made from strips of cloth existed well before factories began producing cheap fabric, but not in anything like the same quantity. Even in quite poor households, rag bags of the 1800s were filling up with old clothes and scraps left over from dress-making. In the factories, there were clippings and oddments to be sold […]</p> </div> <a class="teaser_link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150618025804/http://www.homethingspast.com/rag-rugs-1800s/" rel="nofollow">Read more</a> </div> </div> <div class="teasers_box"> <div class="teaser post-678 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-1800s category-1900s category-knitting category-laundry category-textiles category-vintage" id="post-678"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150618025804/http://www.homethingspast.com/stocking-stretchers-sock-blockers/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to Sock stretchers, stocking airers, and sock blockers">Sock stretchers, stocking airers, and sock blockers</a></h2> <div class="format_teaser entry-content"> <a class="post_image_link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150618025804/http://www.homethingspast.com/stocking-stretchers-sock-blockers/" title="Permanent link to Sock stretchers, stocking airers, and sock blockers"><img class="thumb alignleft" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150618025804im_/http://www.homethingspast.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/sock-stretchers-tn.jpg" width="100" height="135" alt="sock blockers stretchers"/></a> <p>In the late 1940s a Canadian housewife, Joan Colborne,† counted her sock stretchers before tackling a backlog of laundry. She “only” had four pairs and so could not wash more than eight woollen socks at a time. If socks were not stretched out while drying they might shrink. Stretchers like the ones in the photo […]</p> </div> <a class="teaser_link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150618025804/http://www.homethingspast.com/stocking-stretchers-sock-blockers/" rel="nofollow">Read more</a> </div> </div> </div> <div id="sidebars"> <div id="sidebar_1" class="sidebar"> <ul class="sidebar_list"> <li class="widget widget_killer_recent_entries" id="widget_killer_recent_entries-2"> <h3>Newest posts</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150618025804/http://www.homethingspast.com/darning-eggs-mushrooms/" title="Click to read Darning eggs, balls, & mushrooms" rel="bookmark">Darning eggs, balls, & mushrooms</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150618025804/http://www.homethingspast.com/wooden-butter-tubs/" title="Click to read Butter tubs can be beautiful" rel="bookmark">Butter tubs can be beautiful</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150618025804/http://www.homethingspast.com/games-tables/" title="Click to read Games tables" rel="bookmark">Games tables</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="widget widget_text" id="text-23"><h3>Have your say</h3> <div class="textwidget"><p>Scroll down to add your comment. 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