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Millinery Notebook from 1980 course at Brooks College, with hat patterns and designs
Red hard vinyl binder with instructor and student notes from a course taught by Doris M. Anderson at Brooks College in the Fall of 1980. A combination of instructor handouts, worksheets, and student notes (around 35-40 pages) plus five envelopes at the rear containing hand...
Textile Decorating: The Home Vocation
Color printed wraps, 8vo, (16) pages. Printed in sepia ink, copiously illustrated in halftone and one page in color. Near Fine with light rubbing and toning to exterior. Advertises the "Esser-Lockwood System of Textile Decorating," designed to outsource manual decoration to home-based business. Decorators were...
Travail Manuel: Tissage Cahier-Album No. 1
Softcover, 6 x 6 inches. Saddle-stitched French wraps with 9 patterns printed on each flap, able to be folded over the pages to view during exercises. 26 leaves and 9 completed weavings. The leaves are perforated at the gutter, with about 8 stubs from detached...
Flower Sewing Cards (#4227)
Identified in the 1907 catalog as No. 4227, to contain 12 cards. Patterned paper with chromolithograph label; paper chipped from the lower left corner of the base, otherwise Very Good+. This box has an extra four cards—16 total; 15 are complete and the last is...
Quarter Century Edition of the Paradise of Childhood. A Practical Guide to Kindergartners
Second printing of the "Quarter Century Edition" issued by Milton Bradley in 1896, after their first American edition in 1869. This edition expanded to include a biography of Froebel and his legacy in education. Near Fine with minor soil and sunning to boards, gilt cover...
Fantastical whimsy of a needle book
Late nineteenth-century felt and velvet needle book (with an original packet of sharps) strung to a magical bundle of silky ribbons in different colors and sizes. A tactile delight and visual joy, the needle book measures 2.25 x 1.75 inches and the full piece dangles...
The Lady's Album of Fancy Work; Consisting of novel, elegant and useful designs in knitting, netting, crochet and embroidery with clear and explicit directions for working the patterns.
First edition. Pictorial cloth-backed boards, 8vo, [46], 8pp. All edges gilt. Monochrome plates printed in red, blue, green and sepia inks by Stevens & Co.Bound by Bone & Son, London, with beautiful glazed lilac endpapers and autograph bookplate of Mrs. Baddeley. 40 plates on twenty...
Cours de mise-en-carte: A portfolio of student work in producing "point paper" drafts for weaving, 1949-1951.
Cours de mise-en-carte. École de tissage de Lyon, 1949-1951. Hardcover half cloth folio with string ties and mounted manuscript title plate, 13 x 10.5 inches. 18 pieces: 16 large mise-en-carte diagrams executed in gouache, with additional drawings and documentation, some stapled, including 4 numbered sketches...
What and How: A Systemized Course of Hand Work for Primary Grades, for Rural Schools, for the Home
Green cloth 8vo, 159pp. Second edition. Very Good with light sunning and discoloration to exterior, binding slightly shaken. Printed on heavy, semigloss stock with an abundance of great illustrations, many in color, of Froebel Gifts including sewing, weaving, and stick laying, plus geometric shapes and...
Principles and Practice of Textile Printing
Maroon cloth hardcover 8vo, 1064pp. 3 inches thick! 19 numbered plates in addition to copious in-text illustrations and diagrams; over 200 mounted swatches of various patterns and dyeing techniques on different fabrics and textures. Small repaired tears in the cloth at both spine ends, as...