Under the Gables

And how could I have forgotten this? A little Dutch homemaker in the making. Rembrandt van Rijn, 1651

A French lady of the 15th century sweeps a room. From the Livre des proprietes des choses, which sounds like a housekeeping manual. Two lad...

In my obsession with quilting, I have been thinking about the differences between quilting and fashion. There is no doubt that both activiti...

A scene of Dutch domesticity painted by Pieter de Hooch in the mid-17th century. Note the bed in the wall, which was a typical . The interio...

Madame Eugenia Errazuriz in 1882, by John Singer Sargent. Eugenia Errazuriz (1860-1954) was a style leader of Paris from 1880 into the 20th ...

The urban medieval home, a busy thoroughfare of business and family, from the Da Costa Book of Hours , The Netherlands, 1535. To find out ab...

Carrie Severt on the porch with her wash and Star Quilt. If you are interested in quilting or in the history of quilting, I encourage you to...