Embroidery and decorative stitches
A 1916 needlework instruction book from the Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences in Scranton, Pennsylvania, written for home embroiderers learning stitches by correspondence. Its pictures are plain line drawings of stitches being worked, showing thread path, needle position and the finished pattern in close detail. A designer could take from them a clear vocabulary of historic chain, buttonhole and seam-lacing stitches for borders and textile motifs.
