Object Details
- Description
- Rollup style case or kit for holding sewing materials, called a "housewife." Made of printed cotton calico. Calico has a leaf print on a striped ground. According to family history used by Abram Whitlock of New Brunswick, New Jersey as a soldier during the Civil War. "Housewives" (also called hussifs or sewing kits) were common gifts to Civil War soldiers on both sides of the conflict.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- ca.1861
- Physical Description
- cotton (overall material)
- plain weave; cylinder printed (overall production method/technique)
- Object Name
- Needlework Case
- housewife (sewing case)
- housewife (sewing kit)
