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Culinary antiques and vintage kitchen things: illustrated articles — Home Things Past
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Kitchen & dining antiques: culinary and food-related articles. Culinary is a useful word. It pulls together everything connected with food (and drink) preparation, storage, serving and eating. So the “kitchen” articles here at HomeThingsPast.com cover a range of antique culinary items from elegant to basic. Antique, vintage, simple, stylish. As the tagline says. Butter tubs can be beautiful. Wooden tubs with fine carving inside the lid were traditional containers for a few pounds of butter in parts of No...
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Needlework — Home Things Past
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Darning eggs, balls, & mushrooms. A hundred years ago could anyone imagine that darning tools would now be unrecognisable except to antiques or crafts enthusiasts? There always used to be a steady supply of darning in the family mending bag. A woman sitting darning was a common sight, and so was a darning egg. Inside a stocking or sock with […]. Antique work tables for sewing and crafts. Rag rugs – hand-made craft in an industrial age. Darning eggs, balls, & mushrooms. Butter tubs can be beautiful. Where...
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Treen & wood — Home Things Past
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Darning eggs, balls, & mushrooms. A hundred years ago could anyone imagine that darning tools would now be unrecognisable except to antiques or crafts enthusiasts? There always used to be a steady supply of darning in the family mending bag. A woman sitting darning was a common sight, and so was a darning egg. Inside a stocking or sock with […]. Butter tubs can be beautiful. Love tokens and betrothal gifts carved from wood. Medieval and Renaissance combs. The most beautiful combs owned by ladies in late ...
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Beds — Home Things Past
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Box beds, bunk beds – upstairs, downstairs. I’ve written about box beds before, and about the Breton tradition of fine, substantial, and wonderfully carved box beds (lits clos or enclosed beds). At the time I didn’t know about another, more recent, tradition from about 100 years ago: pictures of comic scenes staged around Britanny’s most famous furniture. The double-decker beds (double lit […]. Rocking cradles – wood or wicker. Cradle designs have changed, but are parents’ concerns any different? The las...
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Furniture — Home Things Past
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This table is a fine example of the 18th century fashion for specialised furniture designed to suit particular interests and hobbies. It’s beautifully crafted by a skilled cabinet-maker for a client with plenty of money. Look at the inlay work in the games boards, the edgings, the pairs of dice – and all over. Set […]. Card tables and a social life. Tiled stoves, winter warmth. 18th century American kitchen. This model of an 18th century kitchen in New England should appeal to people who like historic ki...
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Drinks — Home Things Past
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Is it safe to use a vintage briki, ibrik, or cezve? Drinking strong coffee made in a small pot called a briki, ibrik, cezve or rakwa, has become quite popular in English-speaking countries in the last few years. If you have an old briki from an antique shop, relative’s attic, or an old souvenir you may wonder if you can put it on the […]. Toby jugs – comic or commonplace, English or not? Toby jugs portray a character whose story is rather unclear. He reminds some people of Shakespeare’s jovial, disre...
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Knitting — Home Things Past
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Darning eggs, balls, & mushrooms. A hundred years ago could anyone imagine that darning tools would now be unrecognisable except to antiques or crafts enthusiasts? There always used to be a steady supply of darning in the family mending bag. A woman sitting darning was a common sight, and so was a darning egg. Inside a stocking or sock with […]. Rag rugs – hand-made craft in an industrial age. Sock stretchers, stocking airers, and sock blockers. Darning eggs, balls, & mushrooms. Books from Amazon.com.
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Antiques — Home Things Past
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Darning eggs, balls, & mushrooms. A hundred years ago could anyone imagine that darning tools would now be unrecognisable except to antiques or crafts enthusiasts? There always used to be a steady supply of darning in the family mending bag. A woman sitting darning was a common sight, and so was a darning egg. Inside a stocking or sock with […]. Butter tubs can be beautiful. Card tables and a social life. Many finely-crafted card tables were made in the 1700s and 1800s. The social lives of prosperous...
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Crafts — Home Things Past
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Darning eggs, balls, & mushrooms. A hundred years ago could anyone imagine that darning tools would now be unrecognisable except to antiques or crafts enthusiasts? There always used to be a steady supply of darning in the family mending bag. A woman sitting darning was a common sight, and so was a darning egg. Inside a stocking or sock with […]. Butter tubs can be beautiful. Rocking cradles – wood or wicker. Cradle designs have changed, but are parents’ concerns any different? Rag rugs – hand-made ...
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Wooden antiques — Home Things Past
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This table is a fine example of the 18th century fashion for specialised furniture designed to suit particular interests and hobbies. It’s beautifully crafted by a skilled cabinet-maker for a client with plenty of money. Look at the inlay work in the games boards, the edgings, the pairs of dice – and all over. Set […]. Card tables and a social life. Using a dough box or kneading trough. If you’ve ever made bread, how much flour did your recipe call for? Just enough for one or two tasty loaves? 200 years ...
