Cross-stitch embroidery
A 1899 instruction manual on cross-stitch embroidery by Harriet Cushman Wilkie, published in Boston by the Priscilla Publishing Company for needlework students and home embroiderers. Its pages are grids of charted border strips, geometric motif blocks, corner patterns and a cushion design, each drawn as stitch-count squares with figures and rosettes. A designer could take from them the stepped geometric rhythm of counted-thread borders, the alternation of dark and light squares, and the way small repeat motifs turn into strips and corners.
