Wednesday, 18 September 2024, 7:30 PM
Location: St Luke’s Hall, St Luke’s Place, Cheltenham, GL53 7HP
Talk by Jo Teague, Textile Historian & Researcher
Making Mending Marking is an illustrated talk on the needlework produced by working class girls at Cheltenham Female Orphan Asylum in the 19th Century, exploring attitudes to sewing, the role of domestic staff and how the needlework they produced.