Woman's handiwork in modern homes
Woman's Handiwork in Modern Homes is an 1882 New York instruction book on needlework and domestic decoration, written by Mrs. Burton Harrison and published by Scribner's Sons for amateur women stitchers. The four pictures are line diagrams of embroidery stitches, including stem stitch, twisted chain stitch and outline couching, plus a black-and-white sampler band of stylised flower motifs worked on open mesh; a designer could take their clean stitch-path diagrams and the geometric floral border as reference for textile patterns.
