Needlework

Similar abilities often transfer well between different varieties of needlework, such as fine motor skill and knowledge of textile fibers.

Needlework was an important fact of women's identity during the Victorian age, including embroidery, netting, knitting, crochet, and Berlin wool work.

According to one publication from 1843: "Never is beauty and feminine grace so attractive as, when engaged in the honorable discharge of household duties, and domestic cares.

"[2] Fancy work was distinguished from plain sewing and it was a mark of a prosperous and well-managed home to display handmade needlework.

The types of goods that could be decorated with needlework techniques was limited only by the imagination: knitted boots, embroidered book covers, footstools, lampshades, sofa cushions, fans and on and on.