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Elegant Italian Desk Convertible into Sewing Machine
By Midcentury Italian school
Located in Milano, IT
Elegant Italian desk convertible into sewing machine from the 1950s. The desk through its shapes
Category

Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Metal, Iron

Sewing Circles
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with
Category

1990s American Modern Still-life Prints

Materials

Mezzotint

Portrait of a Lady Sewing - British 19th century art Newlyn School oil painting
By Walter Langley
Located in London, GB
. It has the hallmarks of the Newlyn School of artists such as the subject matter, composition
Category

1890s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

English School c. 1880 Oil, Original Frame- A Victorian Lady And Her Sewing Box
Located in Corsham, GB
crocheting in her lap. Her sewing box stands open on a cloth covered table with bobbins and a pin cushion
Category

Late 19th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Dutch interior scene Peasant girl sewing 19th century Oil painting
By Jozef Israëls
Located in Stockholm, SE
environment , went to the Kweekschool and from the age of 15 to the French School. ln the meant ime, he
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Late 19th Century Dutch School Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood, Oil

19th Century Victorian Rococo Style Carved Mahogany Rolling Sewing Table
Located in Germantown, MD
A 19th Century Victorian Rococo Style Carved Mahogany Sewing Table on wheels with a compartmented
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Antique Late 19th Century American Rococo Industrial and Work Tables

Materials

Mahogany

Grand Tour Bronze Sculpture of Dionysus, 19th Century Italian School
Located in Beachwood, OH
19th Century Italian School Grand Tour Bronze Sculpture of Dionysus, 19th Century Bronze with black
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19th Century Italian School Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Vintage Danish Mid Century Teak Sewing Table "2425"
Located in Jersey City, NJ
behind Danish Modern design. The world famous school of design in Copenhagen have made numbers of studies
Category

Vintage 1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Side Tables

Materials

Teak

Ingeborg Åkerman, Woman Sitting in a Garden Arbor Sewing
Located in Stockholm, SE
her garden shaded from the sun by the arbor where she is sewing. It is probably painted in the early
Category

Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Kai Kristiansen Sewing Table - 022469 Vintage Danish Mid Century
Located in Jersey City, NJ
them in respect to the design. There is a science behind Danish Modern design. The world famous school
Category

Vintage 1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Side Tables

Materials

Teak

'Woman Sewing', Paris, Louvre, Académie Chaumière, Carmel, LACMA, SFAA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
kimono, shown seated and sewing. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu attended the Los
Category

1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Vintage Danish Mid Century Rosewood Side / Sewing Table "7798"
Located in Jersey City, NJ
world famous school of design in Copenhagen have made numbers of studies from the perfect height of a
Category

Vintage 1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Side Tables

Materials

Rosewood

Vintage Danish Midcentury Teak Sewing Table with Yarn Basket, 012308
Located in Jersey City, NJ
school of design in Copenhagen have made numbers of studies from the perfect height of a chair to how
Category

Vintage 1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Side Tables

Materials

Teak

"Meditation" Dutch Woman Sewing Interior Genre Home scene Fruit Flowers on Table
By Bernard De Hoog
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
the Quellinus School in Amsterdam. Mainly a genre and portrait painter, he occupies a distinguished
Category

Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait of Lady Sewing in an Interior - Scottish 40s Pointilliste oil painting
By Murray McNeel Caird Urquhart
Located in London, GB
by a stove, the door open to warm her. She is sat at a table and is concentrating on sewing on her
Category

1940s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Korean Contemporary Art by Kyung-Sup Byun - Drawing for Sewing, for Gwangju
By Byun Kyung-Sup
Located in Paris, IDF
School of Chonnam University in Gwangju, Korea and held her paintbrush again. Ever since, her day-to-day
Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Korean Contemporary Art by Kyung-Sup Byun - Drawing for Sewing, for Jeju
By Byun Kyung-Sup
Located in Paris, IDF
School of Chonnam University in Gwangju, Korea and held her paintbrush again. Ever since, her day-to-day
Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

"Girl Sewing" Post-Impressionist Portrait of Seated Girl Oil Painting on Canvas
By Jacques Zucker
Located in New York, NY
An outstanding oil painting depicting a portrait of a seated girl sewing. The subtle tones and
Category

20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Korean Contemporary Art by Kyung-Sup Byun - Drawing for Sewing, for a Prayer
By Byun Kyung-Sup
Located in Paris, IDF
in the Graduate School of Chonnam University in Gwangju, Korea and held her paintbrush again. Ever
Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Wood Panel

Korean Contemporary Art by Kyung-Sup Byun - Drawing for Sewing, for a Prayer
By Byun Kyung-Sup
Located in Paris, IDF
in the Graduate School of Chonnam University in Gwangju, Korea and held her paintbrush again. Ever
Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Wood Panel

Korean Contemporary Art by Kyung-Sup Byun - Drawing for Sewing, for a Prayer
By Byun Kyung-Sup
Located in Paris, IDF
in the Graduate School of Chonnam University in Gwangju, Korea and held her paintbrush again. Ever
Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Wood Panel

BEACH TO SKY Signed Mini Lithograph, Surreal Beach Scene Blue Sky Sewing Needle
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
-free. BEACH TO SKY presents a surreal blue sky beach scene depicting a threaded sewing needle carefully
Category

1990s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Korean Contemporary Art by Kyung-Sup Byun - Drawing for Sewing, for a Prayer
By Byun Kyung-Sup
Located in Paris, IDF
School of Chonnam University in Gwangju, Korea and held her paintbrush again. Ever since, her day-to-day
Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Korean Contemporary Art by Kyung-Sup Byun - Drawing for Sewing, for a Prayer
By Byun Kyung-Sup
Located in Paris, IDF
until 20 years later that she returned to Korea to study Fine Arts in the Graduate School of Chonnam
Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Korean Contemporary Art by Kyung-Sup Byun - Drawing for Sewing, for a Prayer
By Byun Kyung-Sup
Located in Paris, IDF
School of Chonnam University in Gwangju, Korea and held her paintbrush again. Ever since, her day-to-day
Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Korean Contemporary Art by Kyung-Sup Byun - Drawing for Sewing, for a Prayer
By Byun Kyung-Sup
Located in Paris, IDF
School of Chonnam University in Gwangju, Korea and held her paintbrush again. Ever since, her day-to-day
Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Paper

Korean Contemporary Art by Kyung-Sup Byun - Drawing for Sewing, for a Prayer
By Byun Kyung-Sup
Located in Paris, IDF
School of Chonnam University in Gwangju, Korea and held her paintbrush again. Ever since, her day-to-day
Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Korean Contemporary Art by Kyung-Sup Byun - Drawing for Sewing, for a Prayer
By Byun Kyung-Sup
Located in Paris, IDF
School of Chonnam University in Gwangju, Korea and held her paintbrush again. Ever since, her day-to-day
Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Korean Contemporary Art by Kyung-Sup Byun - Drawing for Sewing, for a Prayer
By Byun Kyung-Sup
Located in Paris, IDF
School of Chonnam University in Gwangju, Korea and held her paintbrush again. Ever since, her day-to-day
Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Korean Contemporary Art by Kyung-Sup Byun - Drawing for Sewing, for a Prayer
By Byun Kyung-Sup
Located in Paris, IDF
School of Chonnam University in Gwangju, Korea and held her paintbrush again. Ever since, her day-to-day
Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Oak Art Deco Modernist Sewing Table by P.E.L. Izeren for Genneper Molen, 1920s
By Genneper Molen, P.E.L. Izeren 1
Located in Amsterdam, NL
sewing table by P.E.L. Izeren is also known in the Netherlands under the name Haagse School. The Haagse
Category

Vintage 1920s Dutch Art Deco Tables

Materials

Macassar, Oak

Singer III (The wheel turning part of a sewing machine casts shadows on wall)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax's mezzotint, "Singer III", shows the wheel view of an old Singer sewing machine. It was
Category

1980s Contemporary Portrait Prints

Materials

Mezzotint

Wool Felt Applique Israeli Folk Art Signed Tapestry Kopel Gurwin Bezalel School
By Kopel Gurwin
Located in Surfside, FL
simultaneously studied Hebrew at their school which was part of the Tarbut educational network. Kopel was active
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20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Wool, Felt

Wool Felt Applique Israeli Folk Art Signed Tapestry Kopel Gurwin Bezalel School
By Kopel Gurwin
Located in Surfside, FL
capital of Lithuania. He spoke Yiddish at home, but simultaneously studied Hebrew at their school which
Category

20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Wool, Felt

The Prince of Wales Landing from His Boat
Located in Middletown, NY
women purchased and stored their sewing needles. Baxter intended that the prints would be sold entirely
Category

Mid-19th Century English School Figurative Prints

Materials

Oil, Cardboard, Lithograph

Dutch Modernism Design Foot Stool Box, Netherlands, 1920s
Located in Oud-Turnhout, VAN
, 1910s / 1920s. Amsterdam School style design. Birch wood construction with pink velvet fabric top
Category

Vintage 1920s Dutch Arts and Crafts Footstools

Materials

Velvet, Birch

Dutch Modernism Design Foot Stool Box, Netherlands, 1920s
Dutch Modernism Design Foot Stool Box, Netherlands, 1920s
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H 7.09 in W 14.77 in D 12.6 in
Busy Woman
By Shelly Fink
Located in New York, NY
, 14 x 17, Late 20th Century, 1960s Depicts a woman sewing. Color: Black and White Sheldon Fink was
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1960s American Realist Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Marie Palmer-Smith - 1930s British Art Deco gouache design
Located in London, GB
the Alice Ottley School and later the School of Art and Design at the Victoria Institute. By the late
Category

1930s Art Deco Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache

Dreamy Young Blond Women Pondering "Deckchair and Cat" Summer Pastel Color
Located in Miami, FL
The Independent, she "invented art-school training in fashion in Britain". Early life Muriel Alice
Category

1980s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache

Garden Variety
Located in New York, NY
stitching; a visual and functional element that underlines the anatomical aspect of sewing and presents the
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic, Textile, Thread, Found Objects, Spray Paint

Garden Variety
Garden Variety
H 34 in W 22 in D 18 in
Pigtails
Located in New York, NY
underlines the anatomical aspect of sewing and presents the body as a kind of patchwork. My sculptures use
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic, Thread

Pigtails
Pigtails
H 4 in W 3 in D 3 in
Mermaid
Located in New York, NY
stitching; a visual and functional element that underlines the anatomical aspect of sewing and presents the
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Mermaid
Mermaid
H 40 in W 50 in D 22 in
Small Recline, pink, purple, textile, organic, ceramic
Located in New York, NY
sewing and presents the body as a kind of patchwork. My sculptures use posture and pattern to show how
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic, Textile, Cord, Thread, Found Objects

Moss Body, textile, patterned, pink, red, blue, green, organic, ceramic, white
Located in New York, NY
stitching; a visual and functional element that underlines the anatomical aspect of sewing and presents the
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic, Textile, Thread, Found Objects

Embrace
Located in New York, NY
aspect of sewing and presents the body as a kind of patchwork. My sculptures use posture and pattern to
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Embrace
Embrace
H 48 in W 32 in D 18 in
Soft Spot, textile, patterned, pink, red, blue, organic, soft sculpture
Located in New York, NY
element that underlines the anatomical aspect of sewing and presents the body as a kind of patchwork. My
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Textile, Thread

Jelly Legs, textile, patterned, blue, soft sculpture, stripes, blue, orange
Located in New York, NY
element that underlines the anatomical aspect of sewing and presents the body as a kind of patchwork. My
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic, Textile, Thread

Lallia - British 1930s Art Deco graphic design by Marie Palmer-Smith
Located in London, GB
School and later the School of Art and Design at the Victoria Institute. By the late 1920s and early
Category

Early 20th Century Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Olivia - 1930s British Art Deco Graphic Design for Paper by Marie Palmer-Smith
Located in London, GB
Ottley School and later the School of Art and Design at the Victoria Institute. By the late 1920s and
Category

1930s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Contemporary hand-sewn Fragments quilt by British master maker
By Emily Campbell
Located in London, GB
sewing combines with the formal and visual principles she learned as a two-dimensional designer to re
Category

2010s British Folk Art Quilts

Materials

Natural Fiber, Silk, Linen, Cotton

Contemporary hand-sewn Shoeman's Puzzle quilt by British master maker
By Emily Campbell
Located in London, GB
knowledge of sewing combines with the formal and visual principles she learned as a two-dimensional designer
Category

2010s British Folk Art Quilts

Materials

Cotton, Linen, Silk, Natural Fiber

Contemporary hand-sewn Drunkard's Path quilt by British master maker
By Emily Campbell
Located in London, GB
knowledge of sewing combines with the formal and visual principles she learned as a two-dimensional designer
Category

2010s British Folk Art Quilts

Materials

Cotton, Linen, Silk, Natural Fiber

Contemporary hand-sewn Vortex quilt by British master maker
By Emily Campbell
Located in London, GB
sewing combines with the formal and visual principles she learned as a two-dimensional designer to re
Category

2010s British Folk Art Quilts

Materials

Cotton, Linen, Silk, Natural Fiber

Contemporary hand-sewn Curllusion quilt by British master maker
By Emily Campbell
Located in London, GB
knowledge of sewing combines with the formal and visual principles she learned as a two-dimensional designer
Category

2010s British Folk Art Quilts

Materials

Cotton, Linen, Silk, Natural Fiber

Contemporary hand-sewn Trianni quilt by British master maker
By Emily Campbell
Located in London, GB
sewing combines with the formal and visual principles she learned as a two-dimensional designer to re
Category

2010s British Folk Art Quilts

Materials

Cotton, Linen, Silk, Natural Fiber

Contemporary hand-sewn Meander quilt by British master maker
By Emily Campbell
Located in London, GB
'Meander' quilt by British artist-maker, Emily Campbell. Emily’s knowledge of sewing combines with
Category

2010s British Folk Art Quilts

Materials

Cotton, Linen, Silk, Natural Fiber

Contemporary hand-sewn Victor quilt by British master maker
By Emily Campbell
Located in London, GB
'Victor' quilt by British artist-maker, Emily Campbell. Emily’s knowledge of sewing combines with
Category

2010s British Folk Art Quilts

Materials

Cotton, Linen, Silk, Natural Fiber

Patterns, Original Contemporary Painting
Located in Boston, MA
2009. Sewing machine was the subject matter of my drawings for the next few years. Sewing machine has a
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Sew What (the swells and swirls of the stripes are now in the hands of others)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
paintings. Combining these passions with sewing paraphernalia from my seamstress days provided inspiration
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Mezzotint

Mid-Century Modern Sofa in Hardwood & Leather by Jean Gillon, 1970, Brazil
By Jean Gillon
Located in New York, NY
followed by reinforcing the wood where there was damage. In parallel the hand sewing process got started
Category

Mid-20th Century South American Mid-Century Modern Sofas

Materials

Leather, Hardwood

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Sewing School For Sale on 1stDibs

Find many varieties of an authentic sewing school available at 1stDibs. Frequently made of wood, hardwood and macassar, every sewing school was constructed with great care. There are many kinds of the sewing school you’re looking for, from those produced as long ago as the 19th Century to those made as recently as the 20th Century. A sewing school is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in Art Deco and Victorian styles are sought with frequency. Many designers have produced at least one well-made sewing school over the years, but those crafted by Genneper Molen and P.E.L. Izeren are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

How Much is a Sewing School?

A sewing school can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $1,450, while the lowest priced sells for $476 and the highest can go for as much as $17,997.