This vintage advertisement for dressmakers’ or housekeepers’ straight and bent shears is from the April 1894 issue of The Delineator magazine. Here is a black and white clip art version of each pair of scissors from the ad. You can find another vintage scissors advertisement (and clip art) on my blog here. Click on images…
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Vintage Sewing Dress Form
The Perfection Adjustable Form was a dress form manufactured by the Hall-Borchert Dress Form Company. This vintage advertisement for the perfection adjustable dress form appeared in the May 1904 issue of The Delineator magazine. Here is a black and white clip art version of the dress form. Click on images to enlarge.
Clothes Iron ~ Free Vintage Clip Art
Here is a vintage magazine advertisement for an American Beauty iron that was manufactured by the American Electrical Heater Co. The ad is from the September 6, 1917 issue of Hardware Age. Plus a black and white clip art version of the iron from the ad. Click on images to enlarge.
Vintage Scissors Clip Art
This vintage advertisement for Scissors for the Work-Basket is from the April 1894 issue of The Delineator magazine. Here is a black and white clip art version of each pair of scissors. Click on images to enlarge.
Free Vintage Image ~ French Sewing Machine Clipart 1901
This old sewing machine advertisement is from the December 1901 issue of Le Petit Echo de la Mode. Here is the cleaned up sewing machine image from the ad. Click on images to enlarge.
Free Vintage Image ~ Merrick Thread Trading Card
Here is a Victorian trading card with an image of a young girl stitching her doll’s hat. The advertisement on the card is for Merrick’s thread. Click on image to enlarge.
Vintage Sewing Machines
These vintage sewing machine images are from an 1878 agriculture magazine. If a reader of the magazine would render a little assistance by collecting and forwarding “few or many names of new and old subscribers” to the magazine, that reader became eligible to choose a “Present (free)”! Whether you were a man, woman or child, there were many “Pleasant,…