Embroidery Tutorial

Sarah's Hand Embroidery Tutorials

This website has wonderful tutorials on basic (and some not-so-basic) embroidery stitches.  It also has a reference section and some patterns!

Photo Library

Photographs are wonderful for telling part of a story of a time or person's life.  With photography becoming popular around the American Civil War we really can start "seeing" how fashions, hairstyles, and looks change over time.  This great photo library from Roger Vaughan has a nice collection from the 1860s to the 1950s.  I love the "lunatic fringe" coming into style in the late 1800s (ie. "bangs").