Super Crisp Antique Monogrammed Sewing Sampler: Patching, Seams, Stitches, Fasteners us embossing company 9 1/4" long x 1

9 1/4" long x 1 7/8" across at ferrule (where bristles attach to handle

which bear their marks

which seem to me to be a great trove of folk art delights

Dated 1827

Super Crisp Antique Monogrammed Sewing Sampler: Patching, Seams, Stitches, Fasteners us embossing company 9 1/4" long x 1This is a crisp, precise, very smart looking antique sewing skills sampler, looking at which feels to me akin to putting on a freshly pressed and starched cotton dress shirt! I come across examples related to this now and then typically a series of single squares mounted one by one to the pages of a sewing class notebook, each demonstrating one type of stitch or seam or hem but more rarely do I come across a larger example, polished and resolved and