Ladies' book of fancy work and instructions for stamping
A catalogue and instruction manual of embroidery patterns issued by J. F. Ingalls of Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1884 for women doing home fancy work and stamping. Plates pair sheets of numbered outline motifs — strawberries, holly, tulips, pine cones, goldenrod, peacock feathers — with engraved close-ups of satin and feather stitch, offering clean botanical line art and stitch diagrams with period price annotations.
