Vintage Homemaking

You’ll find them listed as “Receipt Books” . Volumes originally meant to be cookbooks that came to mean much more as historical housewives journaled their homemaking tips, notes, and routines in them. We refer tto them these days as homemaking journals. Some were turned into volumes for purchase and others are only passed on from [...]

From what we know the Vintage Homemaker’s uniform always included an apron.
Used as a way to protect good clothing without having to wash too much the apron could be donned once again for the next day’s housework without worry of a few spills from the previous day’s toil.
The apron has long been the symbol [...]

Peterson’s Magazine included fine needlework patterns, short stories and lovely colorful fashion plates.

LES MODES PARISIENNES PETERSON’S MAGAZINE 1870 FRAMED
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Another well known vintage ladies homemaking magazine.

October, 1928 - The Modern Priscilla / Great Fashion !
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Starting out as The Home and ending as Woman’s Home Companion, Ladies Home Companion Vintage Magazine
included needlwork patterns, short fiction stories and recipes to help the woman at home.

LADIES’ HOME COMPANION GUIDE 1901 1st Ed. ILLUST. BOOK
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Godey’s Lady’s Book, well known for it’s fashion plates then and now was an expensive
women’s fashion magazine that included sheet music, patterns, and stories.

GODEYS LADIES BOOKS 1864-6 COLORED ENGRAVINGS A138 qq
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The Delineator a “Journal of Fashion, Culture Fine Arts” was put out by the Butterick
pattern people and included fashion sewing patterns for the day’s styles in addition to the
usual homemaking tips. In later years the covers became more art deco style.

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Published by Timothy Arthur Shay Arthur’s Home Magazine was founded in 1852. In addition to fictional short stories uplifting strong moral values (temperance etc.), vintage needlework patterns, miscellaneous drawings, and cooking tips there were sermons also located in each issue of this magazine.

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Even though the major occupation of women in the earlier 20th century and previous was that of wife, mother, and homemaker that never deterred women from doing what was necessary to look their best.

The ads showing women mopping floors and cleaning bathtubs while in high heels with perfect manicures and pearls may have been a [...]

Women of times past were a bit more handy with the hand and needle than women of the 20th century. This was as much necessity as the mark of a genteel lady. The lack of ready-made clothing and household goods made it a must for women to learn their way with a needle and [...]