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  • C. Stromayr: Sewing wound after herniotomy. 1559
  • Labour Yard in Bethnel Green. Also Sewing-class.
  • Women personified as angels are accompanied by the equipment of sewing in an advertisement for Singer sewing machines. Colour lithograph.
  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: a nurse sewing an embroidered cloth. Photograph, 1921.
  • Sewing up of an eye cavity in a cadaver after removal of the eye for training of surgeons. Watercolour by Julia Midgley, 2013.
  • Sewing up of an eye cavity in a cadaver after removal of the eye for training of surgeons. Watercolour by Julia Midgley, 2013.
  • A woman is sitting sewing a piece of ribbon onto lace. Coloured lithograph.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, one sewing, one using a typewriter. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, one sewing, one using a typewriter. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • A domestic scene: a man reading a large book, one woman tending a child and another sewing. Mezzotint.
  • Beecham's school quiz : sewing card : embroider, paint or crayon this design to your own colour scheme.
  • Beaunes, France: a nurse sewing in the first floor gallery of the Hôtel Dieu. Photographic postcard, ca. 1930.
  • Beecham's school quiz : sewing card : embroider, paint or crayon this design to your own colour scheme.
  • An old woman seated, sewing, with a cat on the back of her chair. Watercolour attributed to S. Jenner.
  • Women visiting a beach to enjoy geological collecting, study, sewing and other worthy activities. Chromolithograph after John Leech, 1865.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with angels: she is sewing. Engraving by G. Ottaviani after P. Angeletti after G. Reni.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, details of the use of pincers (top), and sewing needles (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, a weaver sewing different coloured threads at the back of the work. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • A woman sewing in a pleasant domestic interior, her baby sleeps sweetly in its cradle. Aquatint by J. Sartain after G. Dou.
  • Middlesex House of Correction: prisoners are sitting in a room sewing large pieces of cloth. Wood engraving by H.H. after M. Fitzgerald.
  • Three girls sit on a sofa with sewing and knitting needles in their hands. Colour wood engraving attributed to E. Evans after Kate Greenaway.
  • Mrs Pottleton thinks her husband is going to give her a harmonium but he gives her a sewing machine instead. Wood engraving after C. Keene, 1869.
  • A mother sits sewing as her children play: promoting Norplant as a family planning method in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Family Health Services Project, ca. 1994.
  • Artificial limb factory in Rome: six women working at benches, one using a sewing machine and one stitching the back of a full-length leg. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Artificial limb factory in Rome: six women working at benches, one using a sewing machine and one stitching the back of a full-length leg. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Two bookbinders at work: one is sewing the quires of a volume with thread, while the other is tightening a volume in a nipping press. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • A Parisian seamstress suffering from anaemia is pale and weary at her sewing machine and drops her scissors; advertising the medicine Fer Bravais for anaemia. Colour lithograph by A.-L. Willette, 1896.
  • Boys with books line up in front of a seated man and other children sit at a table; a woman is seated with a girl in front of her and others sitting with books and sewing. Etching.
  • A young woman is teaching two children how to read and sew. Coloured lithograph.
  • A tailor cutting cloth with scissors while his colleagues sew at a bench. Woodcut by J. Amman.