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Needle book with real photo cover and printed spine repair
Padded leatherette hardcover, 24mo (5.5 x 3.5 inches) with a photograph laminated to the cover, spine covered with an illustrated strip from a Red Cross "Buy Christmas Seals, Fight Tuberculosis" print campaign. The real photograph portrait of the girl has a touch of hand coloring...
Home Economics class portfolio, household accounting and textiles
Two-ring flexible fiberboard covers with cloth-lined spine, 9 x 11 inches. Many of the outer pages are torn at the hole punches, but still sit neatly in place. Around 100 total leaves, including 5 panels of paper weaving and 4 mounted sewing examples. The book...
Notebook on textile weaving with original examples
A charming bit of student work composed primarily of hand-woven textile samples with explanatory text regarding the use and characteristics of each variation. 14 leaves bound by a navy cord. 8.75 x 6.25. Woven specimens are presented next to a colored chart showing the pattern....
Philadelphia Textile Institute: Two sets of notes in Fabric Analysis and Weave Formation
Philadelphia: [Philadelphia Textile Institute], 1953. Two notebook sections, one housed in green binder, other on loose ring. Completed by student Robert Salkoff in 1953. Soil to binder, pages with frequent tears at the hole punches, creasing and edgewear. Discoloration to the tape and glue used...
Carnet d'échantillons de dentelles / Sample book of laces, ca. 1800
8 individual samples of lace varieties, including examples of both real and machine loomed Chantilly, English applique (sewn to machined netting), and handmade needlepoint, Maline (Mechelen), Irish crochet, and Duchesse bobbin laces. Mounted in an unfussy booklet with pattern embossed wraps, approx. 6.5 square inches....
Advertising cloth measuring tape
60-inch oilcloth measuring tape with stitched edges and a little rusty ol' safety pin advertising J. G. Leinbach Co. in Reading, Pennsylvania.
Home-fashioned notebook of crocheted lace & tatting specimens, France ca. 1900-1920
A homemade album of crochet lace patterns and 46 original examples, 8.5 x 6 inches. Heavy card with orange paper lined covers and spine covering clipped from a magazine. The album contains multiple paper varieties, including pink and blue pages, roughly cut and possibly reused...
Collection of 20 mounted apparel fabric swatches, 1938-1942
Mounted on large index cards, 5 x 8 inches. The cards are housed in a custom wraparound folder, set in mylar sleeves open at the foredge. Two of the cards are in Fair condition, showing heavier soil and one with a tear at the bottom...
Collection of 12 mounted upholstery fabric swatches, ca. 1940s
Mounted on large index cards, 5 x 8 inches. The cards are housed in a custom wraparound folder, set in mylar sleeves open at the foredge. Three of the cards have heavier soil at the lower left, others generally in Good to Very Good condition...
Crochet Lace & Tatting Album by Hazel L. Broman (1899-1982)
A swollen album of over 200 specimens on a total of 48 leaves, most sewn to the pages with thread and a few loosely inserted. Created between 1915 and 1921 by Hazel Broman, a young woman in Wilmar, Minnesota. The daughter of a Swedish carpenter,...