Super Crisp Antique Monogrammed Sewing Sampler: Patching, Seams, Stitches, Fasteners steamboat still standing in Maisons-Lafitte

still standing in Maisons-Lafitte

(And feeling like a ray of sunshine as it does

there is lots out there about Gaylor and his work (which was included in the 1913 Armory Show

in an inexpensive

There are a few small tears in the paper and a bit of wear along the edges

Super Crisp Antique Monogrammed Sewing Sampler: Patching, Seams, Stitches, Fasteners steamboat still standing in Maisons-LafitteThis is a crisp, precise, very smart looking antique sewing skills sampler, looking at which feels to me akin to putting on a freshly pressed and starched cotton dress shirt! I come across examples related to this now and then typically a series of single squares mounted one by one to the pages of a sewing class notebook, each demonstrating one type of stitch or seam or hem but more rarely do I come across a larger example, polished and resolved and