akg-images | Sewing the seeds


					Sewing the seeds


« Back		Ever since Adam and Eve tasted the forbidden fruit, we have needed to clothe ourselves... and we have needed tailors and seamstresses to make and mend our clothing. We present a selection of our favourites from the archive. Click on any image to order a high-res scan!



2-G56-P1-1943-71 A 'make do and mend' poster from the USA in 1943 akg-images		2-H20-S4-1490-1 Measuring fabric in a tailor's shop from a fresco, circa 1490, in Issogne akg-images / Hedda Eid





2-H20-S4-1568-B A Jost Amman woodcut showing a tailor at work, 1568 akg-images		2-H20-S4-1788-B An etching by G. Vogel based on a design by Ambrosius Gabler, 1788 akg-images





1IT-1958-F1954 Italian fashion designer and actor Arthur O'Connell choose material for a suit, 1954 akg-images / Tony Vaccaro		2-H20-S4-1695-1-B A fantastical tailor's outfit designed by L'Armessin, 1695 akg-images





2-H20-S4-1845 A chalk lithograph of a tailor's workshop, circa 1845 akg-images		2-H20-S4-1900-2 A 1900s lithograph of a seamstress akg-images





2-H20-S4-1900 The gentleman's tailor, a school poster circa 1900 akg-images		2-H20-S4-1957 A tailor at work in East Germany, 1957 akg-images / Gardi





2-H20-S4-1959-1 Training at a Paris fashion school, 1959 akg-images / Paul Almasy		2-H20-S4-1911 A poster advertising a college for tailors in Berlin, 1911 akg-images





2-M146-N1-1780 Antoine Raspal, Seamstresses' Workshop, circa 1780 akg-images / Erich Lessing		2-V40-C1-1850-2 A workshop in China in the 19th Century. akg-images / Joseph Martin





2-M146-N1-1929-B Woman working on a sewing machine, 1929 akg-images		7OE-I1-260707 A tall man at the tailor's, circa 1935 akg-images / Imagno





2-V40-A1-1910-90 A man working on a sewing machine in Kampala, Uganda akg-images		9AF-1939-0-0-A4-6 Sewing a school in Mamou, French-Guinea, 1939 akg-images / Denise Bellon



		Didn't find the image you wanted in this selection? There are plently more images of tailors and seamstresses in the akg-images archive. Search the database yourself or email through a request list, we're happy to help!

5EN-L2-G1-1922 Tailors at a fitting in the House of Lords, circa 1922 akg-images / NordicPhotos