Coates sewing and dress making manual ..
A 1912 home-sewing and dressmaking manual by Lydia Trattles Coates, published in Cleveland, Ohio, for women making their own garments and using numbered patterns. The pen-and-ink figures show aprons, house dresses, middy blouses and lace-trimmed underwear in front and back views, drawn in clean outline with hatched shading and inset sleeve or bodice details beside pattern numbers.
