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When mother lets us sew

Ralston, Virginia, Mrs., 1870- · 1910 · New York, Moffat, Yard and company · 64 pictures

A beginner's sewing manual by Virginia Ralston, published in New York by Moffat, Yard and Company in 1910 for children learning basic hand stitches. The 64 line drawings show needles, threads and looped stitches worked on hatched cloth and gridded canvas, giving designers simple black-ink diagrams of running, overcast and darning stitches with repeatable hatch and grid textures.

Sewing

Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0