Name/Title
SEWING MATERIALSEntry/Object ID
85.20.1.4Description
Book - SEWING MATERIALS, Mary Brook Picken, Scraton, PA: Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences, 1925, 296 pages, hard cover, navy fabric over cardboard embossed with "Women's Institute Library of Dressmaking" with an oval bust of a woman below, copyright 1923 in Great Britain by International Educational Publishing Co., off-white interior paper with black ink, includes historical information, descriptions and uses of laces, textiles and use in dressmaking work, a dictionary of trade and sewing terms, information for household sewing. Cover page written in black ink reads "Hattie E. Brown/July 2nd/(?)25[maybe was 1925 originally]". This book is slated for deaccession and is stored in the Workman House SW Room.Lexicon
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