Sewing & Embroidery
Bookbinding, Salesman Sample, History of the book.
Baltimore, MD & Chicago, IL: Baumgarteg & Company AND Banghart & Fischer, [September 13, 1915]. A resale company has has sent salesman sample pieces of book binding supplies to an art teach as noted in the correspondence below. The first item is a singular sample of "Russet Crepe" which has.....
Price: $150.00
Kindergarten Art,Froebel,Embroidery,Pricking
United States: c.1900. Sixty (60) examples of Kindergarten Art, including forty-four (44) examples of embroidery and sixteen (16) examples of pricking (wherein paper or card stock is pricked with a needle or awl to create shapes and designs). Both have some rather fine examples, such as the final pricking design.....
Price: $500.00
Sewing Specimens, Advance sewing technique, Pedagogy
Album of sewing samples by Miss G. C. Ayres. United States, c.1900. 4to album (9.25" by 7.5"). Approx. 75 blank leaves bound in original three quarter sheep and marbled paper sides. Contains approx. 18 sewing samples, with at least two appearing to be missing. Techniques/features include: running stitch;.....
Price: $350.00
Silk embroidery, embroidery, needle point, needle artwork
New York: M Heminway Sons Silk Co., c1900. 107 pp. A comprehensive guide to various patterns for needle point utilizing the manufacturer's products to make them. This catalog is the 8th in the series. It starts with a beginners guide to needlepoint, along with B&W photographs of the various stitches.....
Price: $50.00
thread, sewing, samples, sample set, cotton thread, silk thread
J & P Coats and Gudebrod Brothers Company, c1880. The first sample thread set in this collection was produced by J & P Coats, and has 21 different shades of spool cotton thread. On the front cover is an image of two women seating in a field, with one sewing.....
Price: $120.00
Historical Paper Dolls, Advertising Paper Dolls, Newspaper Supplements
Brook's Spool Cotton, c.1900. An uncut paper doll, produced as an advertising premium for Brook's Spool Cotton. When assembled, the paper doll stands on its own. It is a young blonde man with three hats/wigs and four different outfits, all fancy 17th century dress. Measures 7.5" by 6.5", instructions printed.....
Price: $175.00
Dolls, Sewing Patterns, Germany
Germany: c.1900. German sewing patterns and instructions for making bathing costumes and accessories for a porcelain doll, housed in the original publisher's portfolio. The contents include: one loose chromolithographed plate with illustrations of the finished garments (7.25" by 5", verso blank); one [4] pp. printed instructions booklet (5.25" by 4.5");.....
Price: $225.00
Sewing Patterns,Women's Clothing
New York and Paris: 1871-1904. A group of four (4) catalogs of Victorian and Edwardian women's fashion. All are illustrated with prices, and highlight the growing availability of fashion to the general public. Items include: "Mme. Demorest's Pocket portfolio of Fashions for the Million". New York: Emporium of Fashions.....
Price: $250.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Textiles, American Fashion, Women's Work, Immigrants
United States: 1930s. Manuscript lesson plan book with fabric samples and buttons belonging to Elizabeth Zak, a student of a textile course. Divided into several "contracts" (i.e. classes) over five weeks, the course taught students to recognize materials, judge their quality and best uses, and understand their care. Zak's notes.....
Price: $650.00
Woven Silk, Textile, Advertising
Huddersfield, England. A 14.25" by x 11.75" easel back heavy stock show card with diecut and woven silk inset of the companies factory in Huddersfield, England, known as Trafalgar Mills. The fine silk weaving measures 3" by 6" and is referred to in the advertisement as "A Woven Masterpiece". Learoyd.....
Price: $175.00
Dressmaking, Sewing Lessons, DIY, Women's Work
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Scott, Printer, 12 Hudson's Alley, 1851. Printed handbill advertising a "Novel and Curious Invention for Cutting Ladies' Dresses" by Mrs. R. Githens, who hopes "every lady will have the curiosity to call and see how easy they can be taught to measure and cut their own dresses--in learning.....
Price: $125.00