Helen Dose's Sweet Old Sewing Lessons Notebook wooden chain with cages with the white (cream) ribbons

with the white (cream) ribbons the most aged thing about it

I can’t imagine this level of craft would have been invested in making something that wasn’t an important tool for something fine…

which seem to be pretty rare ones as all I've found out there is a source for replacements

but in any case it's a pretty fabulous thing

which they are leaning up against

Helen Dose's Sweet Old Sewing Lessons Notebook wooden chain with cages with the white (cream) ribbonsIt has been a while since I found one of these old sewing lessons notebooks with samples showing various types of seams and stitching mounted or just loose inside. These were the school work of girls, with the lessons covering the most basic of sewing skills though they seem like quite to accomplishments to most of us now! This one, the work of a young Helen Dose, I believe comes from Pennsylvania, and while it shows its age, it remains a sweet and