Super Crisp Antique Monogrammed Sewing Sampler: Patching, Seams, Stitches, Fasteners steamboat Solid and very tightly packed

Solid and very tightly packed

Nice irregularity to the placement on the carved out dots (a few of which have caught a little dust which is easily removed with the end of a paperclip

It appears they've been thrown around a bit

still standing in Maisons-Lafitte

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 Solid and very tightly packedThis 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