PAST MASTERS in Early American Domestic Arts

Activities and Demonstrations
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Half-Day Demonstrations:
  • Butter
  • Candles - beeswax and tallow
  • Soapmaking (two half-days)
  • Felting
  • Spinning - linen and wool
  • Needlework - plain sewing, embroidery, mending, knitting, lucet
  • "Early American Pastimes for Children"
  • "Taking Tea - 18th-century Style"
Full-Day Demonstrations:
  • Cheesemaking
  • Hearth-cooking
  • Seasonal food preservation
  • Natural Dyeing
  • Laundry
Programs:
  • From Birth to Breeching: Colonial Childhood from Non-Traditional Sources
  • Seasonal Festivities in 18th Century Pennsylvania
  • Yesterday's Tastes in Today's Kitchen
  • Dolls
  • Children's Clothing in the 18th Century
  • Clothing of the Middling and Better Sort in Revolutionary Chester County
Classes:
  • Natural dyeing (at least one session, 1/2 day or longer)
  • Hearth-cooking (at least one session, 1/2 day or longer)
  • Marbled paper (one session, 1/2 day)
  • Yesterday's Tastes in Today's Kitchens (one session, 1/2 day or longer)


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