Armenian seamstresses of Amasia, 1913

Armenian seamstresses of Amasia. The photograph dates from 1913.

In a photographer’s studio, in front of a painted backdrop, a young woman in traditional dress and headdress sits at a treadle sewing machine, sewing a patterned piece of cloth. On the right, an older woman in a dark headscarf works by hand on patterned cloth. Between them stands a moustached man in a fez and dark clothes.