Eleanor Clarice Hayes' Short and Sweet Grade IV Sewing Samples Booklet game pieces as if with palms up

as if with palms up waiting to receive donations

thou art to the bosom dear

Overall good antique condition with a little toning and smudging to the graphite here and there

Box measures 7 5/8" x 6 11/16" x 2 3/8" and is in very good shape

Eleanor Clarice Hayes' Short and Sweet Grade IV Sewing Samples Booklet game pieces as if with palms upI love an old sewing lessons booklet like penmanship practice notebooks, each is its own thing depending on who made it and when, with lessons taught, materials used, etc varying over time. This is an especially brief one, just four samples completed by our young Eleanor, but I find them especially lovely in a very minimal, and also tenderly humble way, and especially for their handwritten captions, which feel almost like found poetry. Basting.