Sewing Sales & Services
Title
Sewing Sales & Services
Subject
Quilting Supplies sold to Contemporary Quilts
Description
This document is an invoice to Contemporary Quilts from Sewing Sales & Services, Distributors of Notions from Atlanta, Georgia. Contemporary Quilts purchased supplies from this company for their quilts. The supplies include thread (.89 cents a unit), a Gingher Bent Trimmer ($7.51), Fiskars Shears ($5.40), Flaire Trim (.74 cents a unit, .34 cents a unit, and .42 cents a unit), and Quilt Squares ($17.33 a unit). The total amount spent was $327.71. We chose this document to illustrate the prices of quilt supplies and quilt making in the 1970s.
Creator
Contemporary Quilts
Source
MSS 130, Box 1, Folder 22
Publisher
University of Memphis Libraries
Date
March 13, 1976
Rights
Digital Image © 2016, University of Memphis Libraries Preservation and Special Collections Department. All rights reserved.
Files
Collection
Citation
Contemporary Quilts
, “Sewing Sales & Services,” Making an Impact: The Lives of Tennessee Women, accessed March 29, 2024, https://umhist4851.omeka.net/items/show/136.