![Item #3540 [TEXTILES] Sample Book - Fancy Needlework for Trimming Dresses](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3540.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1680042528)
c. 1890. Sewn binding. 7 pages. 19 x 14 cm. Thirty-three distinct and skillfully hand stitched trim samples - each sewn onto a handmade cloth book. During the Victorian era, women were taught the sewing skills for both plain and fancy work - plain sewing was used to mend simple..... More
![Item #3477 [TEXTILES] My Own Kenmore Sewing Scrap Book. Roebuck and Co Sears](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3477.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1678397378)
Sears, Roebuck and Co., c. 1960. Wraps. Unpaginated [20pp.] 22 x 28 cm. Sewing instructional book filled with completed assignments. Handwritten instructions along with completed pieces of work, pinned in to the pages. A wonderful example of the various home economics courses that made up most high school curriculum in..... More
![Item #3922 [WOMEN] [FASHION DESIGN] Six Hand Drawn Haute Couture Designs. Dorothy Stransky](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3922.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695939463)
San Francisco: 1929. Dorothy Stransky (1895-1987) was born in Iowa and made her way to San Francisco as a young woman to become a fashion designer. In 1928 we find Dorothy, thanks to the California Voter Registration, in San Francisco working as a designer. In this collection, there are six..... More
![Item #4485 [TEXTILES] [LABOR] The Story of the FABRIC GLOVE Industry of GREAT BRITAIN; Being a...](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4485.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1735598846)
Bournmouth, England: The National Association of Glove Manufacturers, 1949. Wraps. 115 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Directed at the young women of England, this pamphlet describes the history of glove making as well as the individual manufacturers narrative. In the Forward we see the great need for labor after WWII..... More
![Item #4064 [TEXTILES] INDIAN BASKET WEAVING. The Navajo School of Indian Basketry](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4064.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1703023900)
Los Angeles: Whedon & Spreng Co., 1903. Sewn binding. 103 pages. 23 x 15 cm. "Baskets are the Indian woman's Poems; the shaping of them her sculpture. They wove into them the story of their life and love." A fully illustrated manual on the art of weaving. Included are Directions..... More
![Item #3675 [STEVENGRAPH] [WORLDS FAIR] Women's Pavilion International Exhibition 1876. Werner...](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3675.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1686250307)
Philadelphia: Werner Itschner & Company, 1876. Cloth. 15 x 9 cm. Women's Pavilion 1876 World's Fair Ribbon Souvenir - silk bookmark/ribbon memento. Silk woven on a Jacquard loom by Werner Itschner & Co. During the first American World's Fair - celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the signing of the..... More