I love an old sewing lessons booklet--like penmanship practice notebooks, each is its own thing depending on who made it and when, with lessons taught, materials used, etc varying over time. This is an especially brief one, just four samples completed by our young Eleanor, but I find them especially lovely in a very minimal, and also tenderly humble way, and especially for their handwritten captions, which feel almost like found poetry. Basting. Backstitching. Hemming. Overhanding. Feels almost like instructions for life! Earlyish 20th c., with image of woman looking very content at her sewing machine, child and husband looking on!

 9" x 6". Four pages plus cover; four samples with blank reverses-all pages documented. Good condition, paper a bit brittle so one wants to take a bit of care handling.