Kitty Merrett's Gorgeous Early 20th C. Schoolgirl Sewing Practice Book 1880s picture book Visible mending/reinforcing in many places

Visible mending/reinforcing in many places

9 7/8" t x 2 1/2" w x 1 1/8" d

"Pentateuch"

Or it could just sit around looking cute

but what a lovely thing

Kitty Merrett's Gorgeous Early 20th C. Schoolgirl Sewing Practice Book 1880s picture book Visible mending/reinforcing in many placesThe more time I've spent with this, the more each page feels to me like a painting, comprised of several different sewing samples stitched to brown paper in chance compositions that feel like little Agnes Martin's or Richard Tuttle's. Plus a perfect palette of white and pink and red and blues of various shades. The notebook itself is British, 1910 20s I believe, kept by a Gladys (aka Kitty, as she wrote of the first inside page) Merrett. Samples cover