Sweet Lot of Old Schoolgirl Sewing Samples carved profile portrait including for this punched edge

including for this punched edge on a second piece of paper to which it was attached

and usually to roll a a life lesson into it one way or another

but I think this is an especially good one in his red and green with polka dots all over

terminating in a snake like bun

Photos provide a representative but not complete sample of pages

Sweet Lot of Old Schoolgirl Sewing Samples carved profile portrait including for this punched edgeA very sweet pile of old schoolgirl sewing exercises, which it seems clear were once held in a sewing notebook (there are old oval shaped white stickers at the edges of many of them, which I've not removed but easily come off, which would have been used to mount them onto pages, likely accompanied by notes as to the skills being demonstrated. Examples of darning, weaving, and various sorts of mending, stitching, joining, hemming, etc. plus a draw