Swiss embroidery and lace industry
A 1908 United States Department of Commerce and Labor report by William Alexander Graham Clark on the Swiss embroidery and lace industry, written for government and trade readers interested in how the trade was organised and costed. The pictures are plain black-and-white diagrams and photographs: two pie charts splitting embroidery cost into cloth, stitching, bleaching, expenses and profit, a close photograph of white cotton embroidery with eyelet and satin-stitch motifs, and a line drawing of a large mechanical embroidery machine. A designer might take the clear, unfussy chart styling and the crisp white-on-white embroidery pattern as reference for simple, practical layouts.
