1884 Strawbridge & Clothier Instruction Book for Crazy Patchwork
date: label: date made
content: 1884
name: label: maker
content: Strawbridge & Clothier
notes: label: Description
content: Booklet: "CRAZY PATCHWORK. ALL THE NEW FANCY STITCHES ILLUSTRATED AND PLAIN INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAKING THE PATCHWORK. Price, - 25 Cents. PUBLISHED BY STRAWBRIDGE & CLOTHIER, Eighth & Market Sts., Philadelphia; COPYRIGHT 1884 BY STARWBRIDGE & CLOTHIER." It contains a page of general instructions and six pages of transfer patterns to be dampened and pressed with a hot iron. These are motifs for embroidery and designs for edging the patches.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Quilting
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Textiles
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. J. W. McBurney
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T13529.00A
label: catalog number
content: T13529.00A
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Instruction book
label: Object Name
content: instruction book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 10 in; 25 cm x 25 cm