More interesting samples – this time showing their age plus dust, and the workmanship is even through all samples.

This group was given to me by a friend who found quite a lot on a market stall.
They are all on fairly fine cotton squares which have been hemmed by machine, and each piece is also backed by aging cream tissue paper whiy I am not sure. The whole lot of them are white on white samples.

The whole bunch, about 14, has been held together in one corner for some years by a large safety pin which has rusted in place.

And several of the designs are the same as I have already in my collection, which speaks of some kind of curriculum to a course of study at a school, college or institute.

This one, of quite pretty lace-ribbon embroidered flowers, is unusual and I really like it…. the rust stains over it say something about where it has been stored all these years….could be the beginning of an interesting little writing exercise.