Domestic Art A (Sewing) [WITH] Domestic Art B (Millinery) [Manuscript Notebook]
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- Pennsylvania , 1918
Pennsylvania, 1918. Very Good +. Pennsylvania? ca. 1918. Small quarto (21cm); original school notebook of cloth tape-backed brown card wrappers, Lydia Lussy's name in faint ink to upper cover; [120]pp. approximately half filled in ink manuscript with fifteen (15) needlework examples mounted in. Light wear, small damp spot to upper cover, occasional spotting to samples, else Very Good or better. Date and place of production based on public records which note a Lydia Lussy born in Dunmore, PA, in 1902.
Detailed school notebook of a Lydia Lussy for two domestic arts courses, sewing and millinery. The first half of the volume is devoted to sewing, including samples for different types of hems (damask, hemstitched); seams (plain, felled, French); plackets; and patches. The latter half of the volume is devoted to millinery, which Lussy defines as "a collective term embracing all varieties of female headgear." This course naturally yielded fewer mountable samples, though Lussy provides extensive definitions and instructions, such as making the brim of hat, straw sewing, or sewing a double brim.
Detailed school notebook of a Lydia Lussy for two domestic arts courses, sewing and millinery. The first half of the volume is devoted to sewing, including samples for different types of hems (damask, hemstitched); seams (plain, felled, French); plackets; and patches. The latter half of the volume is devoted to millinery, which Lussy defines as "a collective term embracing all varieties of female headgear." This course naturally yielded fewer mountable samples, though Lussy provides extensive definitions and instructions, such as making the brim of hat, straw sewing, or sewing a double brim.