Examples of needlework
The Midland Educational Company Ltd
Category
Education objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
Card, wool and cotton
Measurements
Detached sampler - 155 mm (length); 125 mm (width), Book - 162 mm (width); 202 mm (height)
Place of origin
Market Street, 7 and 9
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 670950
Summary
A brown cardboard exercise book with brown cardboard pages. Printed in black ink on the front cover is 'The Leicestershire Series Of Exercise Books. No.4. Name, Standard, Date, The Midland education & pictorial Company Ltd. 7 and 9 Market Street, Leicester. Head Establishment - Birmingham'. The pages contain a variety of needlework and knitting samples including seams, cuffs, sleeves, hats, button holes, gussets and pin tuck samples. One of the samplers is detached. Total number of items is 2.
Marks and inscriptions
On the front cover: 'Victoria Mary Holdcroft/ Needlework'
Makers and roles
The Midland Educational Company Ltd, stationer