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Needles and Pens: Sewing Diaries of Four American Women
February 22, 2007
Karen Herbaugh curator, American Textile History Museum

Karen Herbaugh discusses how the sewing diaries of three New England women and one young girl provide insight on everything from fashion and sewing to relationships and language at the turn of the 20th century.

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