The following vintage catalog page features high quality sewing notions. Some of the items included on the page are: safety pins, stick pins, dress hooks, crochet hooks, dress fasteners, a needle threader, snap fasteners, hooks and eyes, a tracing wheel, mending tissue, a pincushion, tape measure, a thimble, needle books and a strawberry emery. A…
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Royal Society Embroidery Lesson
This two-page Royal Society embroidery lesson includes instructions for embroidering a pattern that has been printed on the edges and center of an antique night gown. The instructions on the first page, for the stitches and coloring, are as follows: The daisies are worked in loop stitch in Pink. There are two rows of stitches…
Vintage Sewing Coupons Ephemera
Here are three shabby and aged vintage sewing pattern coupons. One of the coupons entitled the bearer to purchase pattern number 3943, a girl’s dress, for 10 cents, which was half the regular price of the pattern. The second coupon entitled the bearer to purchase pattern number 3946, a misses’ skirt pattern for 10 cents,…
Vintage Garment Drafting Machine for Sewing
Here is a vintage magazine advertisement for The McDowell Garment-Drafting Machine Co. of New York. The ad claims that dressmaking would be simplified with their garment-drafting machine and that any lady would be able learn to cut perfect-fitting dresses with it. The ad includes an illustration of the machine and also warned buyers to be…
Free Vintage Clip Art Sewing Notions
Here is a black and white vintage clip art illustration of sewing notions. This comes in response to a request for the art intertwined with the title of The Dressmaker page I posted a few days ago to be extracted. You can find the original dressmaker page on my blog here. The original page is…
Free Vintage Embroidery Stitches Clip Art
I posted the first page of a 1902 article on Victorian fashion titled “The Dressmaker” to my blog last night. This is the second and final page of the article. This page completes the section on “Simple Embroidery for Gowns” that began at the end of the first page. Included on this page are several…
Free Printable Victorian Dressmaker Clip Art
This printable page features a 1902 article on Victorian fashion titled “The Dressmaker”, subtitled “The Bouffant Effect in Coats; Embroidery for Gowns, Etc.” The article speaks of the need for coats, jackets and outer garments in general to be looser than before due to the new contoured style of low-bust, straight-front corsets and the bouffant…
Free Vintage Clip Art Scissors Ad
Here is a vintage clip art magazine advertisement for Keen Kutter scissors and shears. The ad includes an illustration of spools of thread displayed together with a thimble and a pincushion with pins and needles inserted. One of the needles in the pincushion is threaded. The ad assures the potential customer that Keen Kutter scissors…
Appleton’s Bias Velveteen Binding
Here is a vintage magazine advertisement for Appleton’s Velveto-Diagon brand of bias velveteen skirt binding. It was available in 52 of the latest shades. The ad features an illustration of a roll of skirt binding and claims the product to be of superior quality and warranted not to fringe, ravel or separate. Here is a black…
Embroidered Monograms Clip Art
This vintage magazine clipping includes a variety of six beautiful embroidered monogram designs. The article includes instructions to transfer the designs with tissue paper but I’m thinking that modern-day transfer methods may be more efficient. Here is a black and white clip art version of the monograms. I scanned the original article from the January 1890…
Heart Shaped Floral Cushion
This beautiful heart shaped cushion is decorated with a rose, rosebuds and leaves, embroidered on the center front. The cushion is finished with a ruffled lace edge and a tassel on the upper right curve. Here is a black and white clip art version. The image is from the February 1896 issue of The Delineator…
Vintage Knitting Pattern Child’s Stocking
This vintage magazine clipping features a knitting pattern for a child’s stocking. The article includes an illustration of the knit stocking and finishes with instructions to make a larger stocking. I scanned the original article from the June 1904 issue of The Delineator magazine. Click on image to enlarge.
