This card, it speaks for another age. Nobody darns anymore! Nobody's a bachelor anymore! What I really like about it is that it's very tactile. It's not digital. It speaks for an era that has gone - although oddly coming back in some ways, because people are so keen on tangible things like records, 35mm film, typewriters and board games."

"There's a certain ambiguity as to whether the gentleman in question is being encouraged to repair his clothes or not. Will getting wed mean he no longer has to do this, or that he'll be able to take his new skills into his marriage and have more equal partnership?!"

"Those scissors must be minute! If you look at them next to the size of the button. It reminds me of things your grandma used to wrap in greaseproof paper and put in the Christmas pudding. And the stuff you might win in a Christmas cracker. So although it's kind of a functional thing, it's also celebratory."
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Miniature sewing kit and greetings card, British, 1910-1920

'A singularly jolly Christmas and a doubly Happy New Year'. It's funny, isn't it? It's got that sort of tone about it, that kind of 'I'm going to tell you what to do' tone. Sewing is good and you need to do sewing."
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All quotes from Platt Hall Keep Connected Consultation, June 2020