Selma ‘Sallie’ Heysen was an accomplished needlewoman and sewer who made most of her children’s clothes and many household furnishings such as curtains, hand embroidered tablecloths, table mats and napkins. Hans Heysen’s tender oil painting ‘Sallie Sewing’ still hangs in the house and her original American made ‘New Home’ treadle sewing machine is on display in the separate Nora Heysen … Continue reading Sewing for House & Home