Doyley and centre-piece book
A late nineteenth-century needlework pattern book published by Brainerd & Armstrong Co. in New London, Connecticut, in 1896, offering embroidery designs for doilies and table centrepieces for home stitchers. The pictures are plain black line patterns: a round lace-like medallion with scalloped leaf edges, corner motifs for a square cloth, a ribbon-and-blossom border, and a circular frame of curling scrolls, all easy to adapt as repeat borders, medallions or stencil forms.
