Super Crisp Antique Monogrammed Sewing Sampler: Patching, Seams, Stitches, Fasteners steamboat still standing in Maisons-Lafitte

still standing in Maisons-Lafitte

Solid and very tightly packed

Rectangular frame opening on reverse: 9 1/8” x 7”

and would I think be especially great hung from one nail on on the wall

there is lots out there about Gaylor and his work (which was included in the 1913 Armory Show

Super Crisp Antique Monogrammed Sewing Sampler: Patching, Seams, Stitches, Fasteners steamboat still standing in Maisons-LafitteThis is a crisp, precise, very smart looking antique sewing skills sampler, looking at which feels to me akin to putting on a freshly pressed and starched cotton dress shirt! I come across examples related to this now and then typically a series of single squares mounted one by one to the pages of a sewing class notebook, each demonstrating one type of stitch or seam or hem but more rarely do I come across a larger example, polished and resolved and