{"id":8757,"date":"2017-03-23T20:28:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T00:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.qvu.ycq.mybluehost.me\/?p=8757"},"modified":"2021-06-26T00:46:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T04:46:05","slug":"bandboxes-a-historic-craft-of-the-victorian-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quietvalley.org\/bandboxes-a-historic-craft-of-the-victorian-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandboxes, a Historic Craft of the Victorian Era"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8757\" class=\"elementor elementor-8757\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-bdb8a4f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"bdb8a4f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-53d8839\" data-id=\"53d8839\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4bb4234 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4bb4234\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reenactors, historians, and the general public often marvel at the creativity of our historic counterparts. They were able to make from simple tools and equipment ingenious solutions to everyday problems. Imagine us trying to do the same things without Google! Recently, I learned about bandboxes during a training activity.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bandboxes are a catch-all term for decorative boxes constructed primarily from pasteboard with wallpaper on the outside and newspaper on the inside. For an example, think of hat boxes. (Pasteboard is a thin board made from gluing multiple sheets together. It has the thickness of thin cardboard or watercolor paper.) Wallpaper went on the outside because it is a bit more durable than regular paper to protect against usage and wear. Inside, the newsprint helps protect the contents from insects.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bandboxes started in the 1500s as a way to keep men and women\u2019s ruffled collars from getting squished. Pretty soon it wasn\u2019t just for collars but for gloves, combs, hats, pins, ribbons, etc. At the beginning, people often made the boxes themselves. Historically, for some women this was their only creative outlet. Bandboxes seemed to reach their height of popularity during the 17th through the 19th century. The Victorians particularly liked having a box for every purpose.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In America, perhaps the best known bandboxes were made by Hannah Davis. She began making bandboxes after her parents died in 1818. She used wood instead of pasteboard. Davis sold her boxes to the girls who worked in the fabric factories along the Merrimack River, including the famous Lowell Mill fabric factory. Small boxes tended to be about 5 cents while large ones that could be used as suitcases for clothing cost about 50 cents. Peddlers would often sell them on the street as seen in this print by William Marshall Craig from 1808.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Right now I\u2019m trying to make my own bandbox. Thus far the trickiest part seems to be trying to sew the base to the sides evenly. I\u2019ve got a lot of lopsided boxes if anyone is interested.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reenactors, historians, and the general public often marvel at the creativity of our historic counterparts. They were able to make from simple tools and equipment ingenious solutions to everyday problems. Imagine us trying to do the same things without Google! Recently, I learned about bandboxes during a training activity. 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