Chair with Attached Tool Pouch and Embroidered Name of Seamstress
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Arnprior and District Museum Collection: 1996.29.03
This chair was used in the Kenwood factory by a seamstress called “Lois”. Women would sit in chairs like this hoop back to splice paper-makers’ felts into continuous loops. Their personalized pouches would hold tools, notebooks and pencils.