Super Crisp Antique Monogrammed Sewing Sampler: Patching, Seams, Stitches, Fasteners steamboat Rectangular frame opening on reverse:

Rectangular frame opening on reverse: 9 1/8” x 7”

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

just out of this world

It appears they've been thrown around a bit

and was definitely made by an amateur

Super Crisp Antique Monogrammed Sewing Sampler: Patching, Seams, Stitches, Fasteners steamboat Rectangular frame opening on reverse:This 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