Egg cosy

This egg cosy was made as part of the Rural Industries Bureau Scheme to assist miners' wives in South Wales through a period of economic crisis. In 1928 the Scheme's aim was to establish home industries among the women of the stricken Welsh mining communities which could be developed for a wider market. Traditional quilting had been successfully used to the same ends in County Durham. A few quilters still worked in South Wales [not necessarily in the pit villages] but the quality of their work was poor. When they were interviewed they explained that if they had better materials and a rate of pay that would allow them to spend more time on a quilt, they could produce something much better. Th

Egg cosy · Wales · 1930s. Quilted silk padded with woollen fibres and trimmed with silk and cotton cord. By Rose, Muriel. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.