Description:Needlework exersises worked on cotton cloth. This exercise shows examples of:
- Gathered frill
- Attached tape
- Hand worked buttonhole and button
- Seaming
- looping
- placket opening
- Slit patch
- Horizontal and vertical pin tucks
- Feather stitch and French knot embriodery stitch
- Drawn thread work
- Gathering
- Pleating
- Hemming
From the Staffordshire County Collection. Worked by Septima Shillito, born in about 1874 and educated in Lincoln.