Sewing materials:Development of textiles. Cottons, linens, wools, silks, laces.
A 1923 instructional volume on textiles from the Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences in Scranton, Pennsylvania, aimed at home sewers and students covering cottons, linens, wools, silks and laces. The pictures are photographic plates of lace edgings and insertions, some hand-made Brussels and some machine-made appliqué, showing scalloped borders, floral sprays and dotted net grounds that a designer could draw on for trim or pattern repeats.
