fs: Sewing & needle work

[Nancy & Michael Feldman]

Blue Dutch Colonial Farms
Michael and Nancy Feldman
New York NY 10001

e-mail :<feld...@soho.ios.com>

July 24, 1996
Sewing and Needlework

Bear Brand and Bucilla Yarns Fashions, The Children's Book, Vol. 86,
1935, 58 pages, More than 40
different outfits with instructions and vintage photos of child models
wearing knitted dresses, suits, coats,
sweaters bathing suits including knitting wisdom and back page ad for
Lux flakes. Excellent condition
$30 postpaid.

100 Useful Edging, Book No. 129, 1939, The Spool Cotton Company, 31
pages, many different types of
edgings and instructions for them, handkerchief edgings, hairpin lace,
wide or narrow edging, hankies,
etc. Very good condition. Many pictures $15 postpaid

Minerva, Vol. 47. page 5 - 48. Minerva M.M. Ivory Knitting Needles and
Crochet Hooks. There don't
appear to have been any pages before 5. Embroidered peasant dress,
homespun nub and featherdown
coat,Velveen dress, Highland plaid and London Raglan coats,shirtwaist
dress, evening dress etc. all with
instructions. Many photos of stylish women wearing the finished products.
Pgs. 25 and 26 are missing.
Otherwise very good. $25 postpaid

Old and New Favorites. Doilies, Tablecloths, chair sets, and placemats.
Coats & Clark's Book No. 124.
34 pages. $5 postpaid

Slip Cover Making Lewis R. Hastings Ladies Home
Journal,1930
14 page how to do booklet for 1930 home slip cover making. Must for
someone working on 30's
. Step by step. Lots of photo's. Two holes in format page( 1/2 "
by 1/4")., never had a cover,
$ 5(postpaid)

Vogue Pattern Book Ruth Seder Cooke, Editor
Vogue Couturier
#707,Oct. Nov. 1953 Shows 88 new designs, 65 dateless fashions, Ads,
drawings,
how to do. Bends on cover top and bottom- 1/2 to 3/4 ". $20

The Art of the Needle: Designing in Fabric and Thread Jan
Beaney Pantheon Books :
New York,1988(First Am. Edition) Beaney is the foremost artist of
embroidery.
Design. Three parts of book: starting points, Fabric paints, Embroidery
techniques and Stitches .
Reading list, index, and suppliers. 128 pg. Mint, dust
jacket. incredible photos. $40

Afghans:Knitted and Crocheted American Thread Co.
Designs by Cecilia Vanek. With clover leaf and dawn wool and
worsted yarns. Book C."Granny
in rocking chair on cover Very good $5

Afghans Cynthia Smart Book #14 Looks 1950's cover with
Afghan on wood armed
red couch.16 pages. very good $5

SPECIAL ALL MAGAZINES FOR $15 Postpaid!!

1-Modern Needle Craft Fall/ Winter 1965
very good $3

2-Good Housekeeping Needlecraft Fall /Winter 1968-69
very good $3

3-McCalls Needlework and Crafts Spring and Summer 1959
Good $5

5-McCalls Needlework Knitting and Crocheting. Winter
1935 -36
cover in poor shape, rest good. $ 5

6-McCalls Needlework and Crafts Spring and Summer 1965
very good $3

7-McCalls Needlework and Crafts ( 2 copies) Spring
and Summer 1970
Good $3
Special #1 to 7 for $15 postpaid.

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