Traditional Heirlooms .......

Queenie

Today, handmade quilts, embroidered "traditional" samplers, hand crafted items from yesteryear are generally are considered "valuable".

Wood turning, carving, quilting, rugging, embroidery, sewing were all skills of necessity in the old days, As Society continues to leap forward in mass produced items, I wonder how many traditional skills and hm items will be around from our time? I can't help but wonder if we are de-skilling ourselves!

Even traditional recipes are now becoming scarse because it's so easy to buy a book full of someone else's recipes that you have only heard of because they are in the media.

I have a collection of "family" recipes (few, but sufficient) and have collated them for my children; I make quilts, signed and dated; I have a Household Notebook which was turned into a gift to one of my older son's when he set up home. I have a couple of "samplers" and others on the go. And other things besides.

So, which traditional, old style skills do you actively practise which could be passed down as tomorrow's "heirlooms"?

idiot_3

doing pretty much everything ourselves - car maintenance, diy, plumbing, wiring, gardening etc that most people pay now for as they are too lazy to work out how to do it themselves.

apprentice_tycoon

Interesting idea - what will we pass on?.....I learned sewing, knitting, crochet, cooking and home decorating from my mum. My 18 year old daughter isn't remotely interested in any of these skills and crafts, maybe she will switch on to them later when she has her own family but it is a minor disappointment that she doesn't seem keen to learn just yet.

calleyw

Both Husband and me cross stitch and we have a some from my MIL that she did when she was 12 so about 70 old years ago.

I don't have any children. But I do hope that someone will get pleasure from what me and my husband have spent time doing. When I have gone.

I know they will not be worth much if anything as they are all mass produced kits.

But I get great pleasure from stitching them and they look lovely on the walls.

Yours

Calley

Allexie

About 15 yrs ago I did evening classes in bobbin lace-making and was taught to make torchon lace, bedfordshire lace, bucks point lace and honiton lace. For a few years, (pre-computer!), I was fanatical about it - joined the lace guild, collected old bobbins and lace, taught a bit and gave talks on it. I now have a vast collection of hand made (by myself) lace and also antique lace but have no one to pass it all on to

I do hope it doesn't just get chucked out when I shuffle off...........

Queenie

Allexie ... I'm up for adoption

needmoney

This thread reminds me of a site I love to visit and probably some Ostylers might like too it's in the Ozark mountains. I was going to post the link but when I visited today they have lost a lot of stuff due to a hacker so maybe it's not a good time to visist but sometime it's well worth it for me it is anyway.

If you do visit please tell me what you think.

Just type in Old Fashioned Country it'll say ezboard in the url take a while to load.

Sarahsaver

i hope to pass on to my kids:
mending clothes
making food from scratch
gardening - EDIBLE stuff!
chicken rearing
avoiding car use
using charity shops and donating to them also
not being afraid to use the phrase 'no it's too expensive'
saving money for rainy days/future plans

Allexie

needmoney wrote:

This thread reminds me of a site I love to visit and probably some Ostylers might like too it's in the Ozark mountains. I was going to post the link but when I visited today they have lost a lot of stuff due to a hacker so maybe it's not a good time to visist but sometime it's well worth it for me it is anyway.

If you do visit please tell me what you think.

Just type in Old Fashioned Country it'll say ezboard in the url take a while to load.

Just had a quick look... interesting....have bookmarked the site and will go back later!

Thanks for telling us about it!! :j

needmoney

Allexie thanks for thanks:D I just love the way they talk to each other and love the saying 'bloom where you are planted', love to read about their weather, their critters and setting on the porch sippin tea, dream stuff to me but hard way of life for them.

Allexie

needmoney wrote:

Allexie thanks for thanks:D I just love the way they talk to each other and love the saying 'bloom where you are planted', love to read about their weather, their critters and setting on the porch sippin tea, dream stuff to me but hard way of life for them.

Have you signed up needmoney?? Or do you just visit? Do they welcome erm...'foreigners'?

Also like the 'abundantly blessed' saying they use!