Sweet Lot of Old Schoolgirl Sewing Samples old composition doll The combination of red painted

The combination of red painted wooden frame and silver tin drawers arranged in a neat grid on this little wallhanging hardware chest really does it for me

As detailed on the inside of the front cover

He was blest with large understandings

with the features--including tattooed ear and fanstastic star-like wrinkles around the eye--playfully rendered in black ink dots

Sweet Lot of Old Schoolgirl Sewing Samples old composition doll The combination of red paintedA very sweet pile of old schoolgirl sewing exercises, which it seems clear were once held in a sewing notebook (there are old oval shaped white stickers at the edges of many of them, which I've not removed but easily come off, which would have been used to mount them onto pages, likely accompanied by notes as to the skills being demonstrated. Examples of darning, weaving, and various sorts of mending, stitching, joining, hemming, etc. plus a draw