Why the show is about the flat, not the workshop
Home sewing happened between other tasks — and the museum reproduced exactly that crowding.
The display is deliberately cramped. The machine stands not on a plinth but on an ordinary table, with dishes and a lamp beside it. There is little room between objects, and that reproduces the conditions in which sewing actually happened.
The museum says the first layout was more spacious and looked like a workshop. It was dropped: a workshop is a different story, with a different rhythm and different people.
