Sewing & Textiles

Cahier de Couture (les manches)

[sewing ephemera, textiles, student work]

Les encolures (examples of neckline hems from French sewing course)

[sewing ephemera, textiles, student work]

Singer Sewing Skills Kit with Outline of Student's Lessons

[sewing ephemera]

Carnet d'échantillons de dentelles / Sample book of laces, ca. 1800

[textiles, sewing ephemera]

Quarter Century Edition of the Paradise of Childhood. A Practical Guide to Kindergartners

Wiebe, Edward; Henry W. Blake

Mid-20C sewing and needlework sampler (2 pieces)

[sewing ephemera]

Litany of sewing and needlework skills, 1901

[sewing ephemera]

Tailor's garment construction models from sewing course, ca. 1940 [Travaux du manche tailleur pour cours de couture]

[sewing ephemera, couture work]

1892 Kindergarten Teacher's Album of Pricking and Sewing (Froebel Gifts 11 & 12)

[Froebel Gifts; Kindergarten album]

My Own Kenmore Sewing Scrap Book

[machine sewing notebook]

ca. 1912 hand sewing notebook by Wisconsin 7th grader Bernice Nichols with many examples

[sewing notebook, student work]

Couture - French student sewing project book with 12 cloth examples

[sewing book]

Japanese Silk Dye Specimens, Catalog of 60 Swatches

[textiles, dye charts, fabric samples]

Album of 50+ Froebel Gifts - paper weaving, decorative stitching, embroidery patterns

[Froebel kindergarten album]