Kitty Merrett's Gorgeous Early 20th C. Schoolgirl Sewing Practice Book 1880s picture book Its little legs

Its little legs

So this poster comes from its heyday

9 7/8" t x 2 1/2" w x 1 1/8" d

Visible mending/reinforcing in many places

Kitty Merrett's Gorgeous Early 20th C. Schoolgirl Sewing Practice Book 1880s picture book Its little legsThe more time I've spent with this, the more each page feels to me like a painting, comprised of several different sewing samples stitched to brown paper in chance compositions that feel like little Agnes Martin's or Richard Tuttle's. Plus a perfect palette of white and pink and red and blues of various shades. The notebook itself is British, 1910 20s I believe, kept by a Gladys (aka Kitty, as she wrote of the first inside page) Merrett. Samples cover