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Remaillage endroit-envers (mending examples from French sewing course)
Student Simone Pons' hand fashioned 'cours de couture' portfolio with four panels of heavy paper stock that fold inward to 10.25 x 6.75, pockets and spine reinforced with gummed paper. Contains 6 examples of mending or "remeshing" techniques in knitting. The examples are mounted with...
Finnish Manuscript Sewing Book with Hand Drawn Color Diagrams (Sloyd Handicraft Student Notebook)
8.75 x 8.5 inches. Printed fiberboard 2-prong binder cover; 50 quad-ruled pages, 20 pages with large color diagrams executed with great care in colored pencil. Text in faint cursive script, entirely in Finnish. No date, presumed ca. 1950s. The system of manual training known as...
Reprise Perdue (mending examples from French sewing course)
Student Simone Pons' hand fashioned 'cours de couture' portfolio with four panels of heavy paper stock that fold inward to 10.25 x 6.75, pockets and spine reinforced with gummed paper. Contains 4 examples of mending techniques executed on a rather open weave, slick pink fabric,...
Couture - French student sewing project book with 12 cloth examples
A home-fashioned notebook in staplebound wraps, 8.25 x 10.5 inches. 24 quad-ruled pages, some altered with tape to create foldout panels, replicate fabric seams, etc. Featuring 12 fabric samples: 6 panels illustrating structural and decorative handstitches, plus 6 miniature garments illustrating competency sewing rounded collars,...
Tailor's garment construction models from sewing course, ca. 1940 [Travaux du manche tailleur pour cours de couture]
France, ca. 1940. Handmade folio, 13 x 10 inches, stiff paper with blanket-stitched edges housing 4 paper patterns, 4 garment models, and a pink ribbon bow. The blue square panel has a few small holes and the muslin linings have scattered foxing. The folder is...
Cahier de Couture (les manches)
Spiral bound notebook, 8.5 x 7 inches. 12 leaves, including 4 pages of text and two graphs (1 folding). Geometric model for calculating the curve of a sleeve, list of average measurements for children 3-5 years. 6 examples inset between cutouts, allowing the work to...
Mid-20C sewing and needlework sampler (2 pieces)
French, ca. 1940. Student sewing sampler in two parts. Delicate eyelets and decorative embroidery, lovely buttonholes and bridging stitches, and an accent of red chain stitching. 12 x 13 inches + 7 x 13 inches. A few small brown spots and the smaller piece, but...
Album of 50+ Froebel Gifts - paper weaving, decorative stitching, embroidery patterns
A substantive collection of over 50 examples of Froebel gifts #12 and #14, showing a progression of skill from simple patterns and tesselations to representational forms and complex designs reminiscent of European needlework. Ontario, Canada, ca. 1910. Very Good. Cloth album with faded gilt namestamp...
My Own Kenmore Sewing Scrap Book
Accidental masterpiece of materiality, color & composition--part American kitsch, mostly modern art. Sewing "scrapbook" published by Kenmore introduces users to the various functions of their home sewing machines. Sears Roebuck and Co., ca. 1960. 4 lessons of 4 leaves each, plus 4 blank leaves at...
1892 Kindergarten Teacher's Album of Pricking and Sewing (Froebel Gifts 11 & 12)
[Froebel Gifts; Kindergarten album]. 1892 Kindergarten Teacher's Album of Pricking and Sewing (Froebel Gifts 11 & 12). New Hampshire: 1892. 24 panels on cloth hinges, concertina-folded into a cloth folio with ties; 9 x 10 x 1.5 inches. Very Good with rubbing to exterior, three...