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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....
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...
The Official American Textile Directory (1909-10)
The Official American Textile Directory: containing reports of all the textile manufacturing establishments in the United States and Canada, together with the Yarn Trade Index and lists of concerns in lines of business selling to or buying from textile mills 1909-10 Hardcover cloth 8vo, 674pp....
Conette: A Game of Skill (Milton Bradley #4044)
8 x 10.5 x 1.75 inches. Complete with four paper cones in each color and two chromolithograph hand catapult cutouts. One of the hands is glued at the wrist and the paper cones have some expected creasing and soil, otherwise in Near Fine condition with...
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...
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,...