Exhibition “Sewing Machines and Irons” will be presented in the Gorna Oryahovitsa History Museum

information by the History Museum in Gorna Oryahovitsa

The history museum in Gorna Oryahovitsa will open a new exhibition “Sewing Machines and Irons”. The exposition is dedicated to the International Woman’s day and 140 anniversary of the foundation of the Women Charity Association in Gorna Oryahovitsa. The museum will exhibit different types of irons, sewing and knitting machines from XIX and XX century. Different attributes from the sewing industry will be also included in the exposition.

Special attention will be paid to the role of the woman in the creation for different types of clothes at home, and later her recognition on the labor market.

Many of the exponents were granted to the museum during the last few years. Some of the most interesting are a wedding gown from the end of XIX century, made in Vienna; original French costumes owned by the famous banker from Gorna Oryahovitsa Mr. Atanas Burov and his family. Some of the contemporary local sewing factories will also present their manufacture.