That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 02, 2024

/// Here Glisenti paints two Women Sewing.

Many bright colored items are showing,

and I’m not comprehending.

Are there holes they are mending?

Or is one giant crazy quilt growing?

Betsy Ross and her sister sewing flags for Beliz and Mexico.

They think their dates are just running late.

Imagine a time before TV….radio….social media…this is what they did all day….

Fun fact: all those flags you see at the Olympics are handmade.

“Hurry up, Ezmerelda! We’re going to want curtains over those windows if we’re going to have some hanky-panky with the guys once they get here!”

Trials begin for the latest Olympic event; synchronized sewing

Two girls work at their jobs as seamstresses

Trying not to stick the pins through their dresses

Oh, how they think it’d be keen

To have a Singer sewing machine …

It would eliminate much of their stresses!

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Their fingers have to be supple and nimble

It helps to make use of a good thimble

Their boss demands they work quite quick

(He’s a slave-driving pr!ck

Old, fat, bald — hardly a male sex symbol)

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The working conditions are hard for these lasses

After just a few years they will need glasses

As dim is the shop’s poor daylight

It’s even worse towards dim twilight

Since the boss uses candles not lit gasses

Two seamstresses, seemingly stressed,/

Each trying to prove she’s the best/

Zerlina’s arthritic/

Serafina’s rachitic/

(You’d not care to see them undressed)///

It’s a seemingly placid scene/

So placid,so calm, so serene../

You can’t know the stresses/

Of producing the dresses/

Of society’s crème de la crème..

Designing a dress is an art/

And designers are thought to be smart:/

But folk of “low station”/

Create the creations:/

We don’t get to see the hard part..

this one just needled me

Now where did they get a laptop in 1890?

“So Sue, is the past tense of sew, saw? I don’t know Sam, we’ll have to see when we’re done,”

At the competitive sewing championship, the contestants constantly needled each other.

Patience Proper and Prudence Prim – founding members of the Anaheim, Azusa, and Cucamonga Sewing Circle, Book Review, and Timing Association. (One had a son named Jan and the other had a son named Dean.)

Perhaps they’re embroidering flags//For the forthcoming parade ju jour//What makes me scream//’bout this domestic scene//Is he bits of trash on the floor!

Your caption on this one leaves me in stitches, Steve!

A picture of a couple of scrappy ladies? Sure I’m always curious.

Women sewing: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Sewing in paintings" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Ecosia search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found and once there find the text string 1890, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using the Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browsers, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this roughly B4 paper size painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3348 (July 2, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger, if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to the info about this artist I used to point to here. Only work by him used here so far.

Julia (on left), the hussy is showing her ankle like it’s not a sin.

Boo! :D

They’re creating bee-ware.

Darn what a nice painting!

Darn, where’s my thimble, I pricked my finger again, which reminds me is Cedric coming for dinner?

Woman #1: I am tired of sewing my husband’s torn trousers! Women #2: And I am tired of patching your work!