Examples of needlework
The Central Educational Co., Ltd., School Board Contractors
Category
Education objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
Cardboard, wool and cotton
Measurements
Detached sampler - 133 mm (length); 85 mm (width), Book - 165 mm (width); 200 mm (height)
Place of origin
Derby
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 670917
Summary
A brown cardboard exercise book with brown cardboard pages. Printed in black ink on the front cover is 'Derby Series. School. Needlework Specimens. Executed by Standard, The Central education & pictorial Co. Ltd. School Board Contractors, Derby'. The pages contain a variety of needlework and knitting samples including a sleeve, buttonhole, gusset and pin tuck samples. The pages and one of the samplers are detached. Total number of items is 4.
Makers and roles
The Central Educational Co., Ltd., School Board Contractors, maker