New patterns for embroidering : alphabets
This 1870 pattern book, New patterns for embroidering: alphabets, was compiled for needleworkers who stitched letters onto linen, and its pages present alphabets as grids of blue squares. The three pictures show full alphabets set inside Greek-key and fret borders, with small flower and scroll motifs, and a designer could borrow the grid-based lettering, the border bands, and the compact corner ornaments for cross-stitch or monogram layouts.
