Textiles and clothing, by Kate Heintz Watson
A 1914 textbook on textiles, clothing and sewing by Kate Heintz Watson for the American School of Home Economics in Chicago, aimed at students of home economics. The pictures are plain black-and-white teaching diagrams: a folded cloth pattern piece, samples of hand stitching on fabric, a machine drawing of a loom-like frame, and a close view of crossed plant fibres. A designer might take from them the simple line-drawing vocabulary of early instructional textbooks, with clear outlines and hatched shading.
