Sweet Lot of Old Schoolgirl Sewing Samples rough surface They're old ones

They're old ones

most of those with a crank arm on the side

to my sensibilities to great effect

and just what it is

Sweet Lot of Old Schoolgirl Sewing Samples rough surface They're old onesA 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