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Sample books

 Subject

Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Kiddie flowers: sample book of floral fabric potentially for children's clothing (Addition 38) 2024-0061 , 1940

 File — Box 10: [Barcode: X032669465], Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a sample book titled "Kiddie flowers" consisting of eight mounted samples of floral fabric potentially for children's clothing.

Dates: 1940

M.E. Lovell manuscript embroidery book and sample work

 Collection
Identifier: MSS -16943
Content Description This collection contains the manuscript embroidery book and embroidered linen bag of M.E. Lovell of North Cambridge, Massachusetts. Lovell’s signature and address are written on the front endpage of the book. The stamp of the stationer that sold the book – F.W. Barry, Beale and Co., Boston – is pasted at the bottom of the rear endpage. The embroidery book contains notes on patterns, two pages of pasted-in articles on Mexican crochet styles, measurements for patterns, illustrations of...
Dates: Majority of material found within c. 1900-1913

Marie Rose Devaux alphabet embroidery sample book

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS 16872
Content Description This collection contains a sales sample book of finely embroidered alphabets, likely intended for use on silk handkerchiefs. There are 290 embroidery samples on silk, mounted to windows in each leaf of the eighty leaves. Inscribed on the original silk cover in graphite is "Marie Rose Devaux 40 Rue des matyrs [sic] Paris". Bound in the Japanese stab-sewn fukurotoji style ("Bound Pocket" binding) and using paper with visible kozo fibers, this sample book was likely made in Japan, rather than...
Dates: c.1870s