Super Crisp Antique Monogrammed Sewing Sampler: Patching, Seams, Stitches, Fasteners vase signed Maya It begins in 1939

It begins in 1939

but here it's this beautiful nailed on extra layer of mend/reinforcement (actually an extra layer on each side) straight down its center

7 7/8 across at rotating plate {framing letter or number to be used

23 3/4" x 19 5/8

as well as Ispahan and Italy)

Super Crisp Antique Monogrammed Sewing Sampler: Patching, Seams, Stitches, Fasteners vase signed Maya It begins in 1939This is a crisp, precise, very smart looking antique sewing skills sampler, looking at which feels to me akin to putting on a freshly pressed and starched cotton dress shirt! I come across examples related to this now and then typically a series of single squares mounted one by one to the pages of a sewing class notebook, each demonstrating one type of stitch or seam or hem but more rarely do I come across a larger example, polished and resolved and