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This wall decoration was purchased from an antique dealer in  Massachusetts.

"Household crafts were created in the domestic sphere by a wide range of women in the nineteenth century in both Britain and America. Although sometimes neglected by historians and viewed as frivolous and oppressive by some feminists, such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Hannah More, household crafts played a very important role in many British and American women’s personal lives, and also played an important social role. This essay examines the three primary ways in which household crafts played this important personal and social role: they provided women with a form of self-expression, gave women more opportunities for social activities outside the home, and increased women’s social influence as educators in morality and science, and as contributors to the arts. "
—Cynthia Bornhorst-Winslow

https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=humanities

Bornhorst-Winslow, C. (2012). The Important Role Played by Household Crafts in the Lives of NineteenthCentury Women in Britain and America (Master’s thesis). Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.