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If you don’t own a tomato pincushion, you’re a monster. Just kidding. I had one that was made in the seventies and I lost it…

I believe that this is the third pincushion on Strange Ago that features a doll. One uses just a doll head, the second uses the…

The instructions for making a hanging bag below were originally published in 1915. The suggestion is that the gauze bags should be used to hold…

If you have a hat stand lingering about the house, you can be a nut like the ladies of old and turn it into a…

The instructions below for making an oven mitt are fairly simple. Just trace your dominant hand to make a pattern and then use the proper…

Here is a very simple, hanging pincushion that was made to be hung in the guest room. The instructions and illustration are from 1915. For…

With so many different types of pincushion patterns from over a 100 years ago, I had to find out if people actually still collect pincushions….

In 1904, small bottles containing a magic, bullet proof ointment, were being bought up by Russian soldiers. Fearing an attack by the Japanese, the Russian…

The instructions for a wood shack smokehouse below come from a newspaper article published in 1896. According to the heading of the article, this smokehouse…

Edward was bathing in the Ohio River when he was overcome with cramps. Fortunately, he was saved from drowning by another man, but then a…