We have looked through old needleworks albums and books. So, what was found out? Now we are know that handmade of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers basically doesn't differ of that we do. Let's look.

In ancient albums and magazines to needlewomen gave advice about knitting and crochet, lacemaking, embroidery, beading  and jeweller, making of handbags and hairdresses. It looked approximately so:

The great attention was given to interior dressing, dressing of armchairs and chairs (below you can see an example of hand tapestry):

To tablecloths and curtains (let's look at needlepointed curtains):

Certainly, good accessories to needlework were for this purpose necessary. For example, qualitative yarn:

 Or good scissors:

Or threads for embroidery. By the way, colour cards of threads for embroidery existed and 100 years ago and they looked approximately so:

Do you think that in needleworks magazines of that time there was no advertising? Look at this:

At first we were surprised to that haven't found anything in ancient albums about quilting and patchwork and about weaving. Then we have understood that albums and books were published for people who presumed it to buy to itself, not for poor men. Therefore and needlework in them has been intended for noble maidens. Basically rather poor people were engaged in patchwork and weaving. They couldn't buy new fabrics and tried to make new clothes of old rags to themselves. Who could present that this necessity will turn to true art - art-quilting, for example. So, now we know that at all times women are similar - they want to be beautiful and to make the house cosy. Just as we, whether not so?