Wooden Embroidery Table Clamp 19th Century

Object/Artifact

Windham Textile and History Museum

The image depicts disassembled wooden objects on a white background, including a circular frame and various shaped pieces

Name/Title

Wooden Embroidery Table Clamp 19th Century

Entry/Object ID

2025.79.1

Description

A late 19th century wooden table clamp with detachable embroidery hoop. Used with the hoop, the clamp would be secured to the edge of a table and the hoop rotated to face away from the table. At that point the fabric would be inserted between the two hoops as normal and could be worked on without the person needing to hold the hoop itself. Without the hoop the clamp might be used to secure large pieces of fabric onto a table while marking, cutting, or sewing. The additional flat pieces of wood could have been used to diffuse the pressure of the clamp on the fabric, meaning less chance of damage or imprints.

Collection

General Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Clamp, Sewing

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Clamp, Needlework

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Needleworking Equipment

Nomenclature Class

Textileworking T&E

Nomenclature Category

Category 04: Tools & Equipment for Materials

Location

* Untyped Location

Archives U1-C-5

Date

August 24, 2025

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Found Object

Created By

Kearney, Quinlan

Create Date

August 24, 2025

Updated By

Kearney, Quinlan

Update Date

August 31, 2025