Barbara Lewis's Very Sweet Sewing Sampler Booklet antique Christmas village everyone covets old primitive boards

everyone covets old primitive boards

which add up to the most perfectly imperfect surface decoration

My guess is that they were a (well done) art/design school exercise

There is one partial page near the end

Everything is covered with a layer of varnish or shellac

Barbara Lewis's Very Sweet Sewing Sampler Booklet antique Christmas village everyone covets old primitive boardsHow to resist this sweet thing? Done by a Barbara Lewis 1930s or so I would guess, probably for a home economics sort of class, if features 18 pages of simple sewing exercises and fabric samples, from cross stitches to four squares, seersucker to chinz. The clips are easily removed should one wish to take it apart (which I did for the ease of documenting) and also easy to to reassemble. 9 1 16 x 6 1 4. All in very good, bright and clean condition and