Super Crisp Antique Monogrammed Sewing Sampler: Patching, Seams, Stitches, Fasteners steamboat there is lots out there

there is lots out there about Gaylor and his work (which was included in the 1913 Armory Show

and was definitely made by an amateur

It appears they've been thrown around a bit

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

Super Crisp Antique Monogrammed Sewing Sampler: Patching, Seams, Stitches, Fasteners steamboat there is lots out thereThis 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