Kinne, Helen · New York: The Macmillan company · leaf 156
ross-stitch Did your grandmother ever tell you how she learned to sewwhen she was a girl ? Have you seen her sewing sampler ? Shallwe learn the stitch she used on her sampler ? MAKING GIFTS 143 Before tjie days of sewing machines, the familysewing was all done at home and by hand. To-day wehave… … Courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art.Fig. 85. —Two samplers of long ago. the girls to sew. The girls had much practice andlearned to sew very well. Every little girl was supposedto make a sampler. The picture shows two samplers(Fig. 85). Barbara Oakes has two samplers which shevalues very much…
Sewing · Clothing and dress
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