The embroidery guide
The Embroidery Guide by Helen Marvin, published in New York around 1910 by the Woman's Home Companion, is a needlework instruction book for home stitchers. Its pictures are plain photographs and line drawings of stitches and finished edgings, showing raised lace work, dotted perforation patterns, a needle worked through linen, and scalloped cutwork collars that a designer could take for simple, legible stitch structure and pattern rhythm.
