Starting To Sew

Needlework Development Series

Needlework Development Scheme, 89 Wellington Street, Glasgow, C.2.-Q.513

Small softcover stapled booklet, 20 pages including covers. No date but probably around 1950. Colorful illustrations and simple instructions on how to sew dolls clothes. Intended for needlework lessons for little girls. The Needlework Development Scheme was a project intending to encourage embroidery and to improve the quality of embroidery designs. Established mid 1930, ended around 1960, subsidized by thread manufacturer Coats.

Scans donated by Seya Wijnsma-Spek, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.

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Sewing

Embroidery

Dolls

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