The measurement of certain elements of hand sewing
A 1919 Teachers College, Columbia University monograph by Katharine Murdoch proposing scales for grading schoolchildren's hand sewing, aimed at teachers of domestic arts. The plates are photographs of plain linen samples stitched in dark thread—running, basting, back and overcast stitches in parallel vertical lines—giving designers grainy woven textures, dashed stitch rules, and frayed selvedge edges.
