Women personified as angels are accompanied by the equipment of sewing in an advertisement for Singer sewing machines. Colour lithograph.
The pattern
This still sits in the public-domain pool. No pattern name yet.
Why it works
Allegorical winged figures elevating mechanical machinery to domestic liberation. Portraying sewing machines surrounded by angels frames domestic technology as divine relief from hand labor.
Steal this when
When framing domestic mechanical appliances as instruments of family liberation from manual drudgery.