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Hand-book

[Thompson, John W] [from old catalog], Domestic sewing machine company, New York. [from old catalog] · 1886 · New York, "Domestic" sewing machine co. · 18 pictures

Hand-book published in 1886 in New York by the Domestic Sewing Machine Company, a manual of machine embroidery instruction for home sewers. Its pictures are numbered line designs of flowers, scrolls and foliage, and a designer might take their flowing vine borders and stylised botanical motifs as embroidery and stencil patterns.

Embroidery, Machine

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