Sharing the result of her years combing dusty attics, archives, brocantes, and antique shops for vintage handstitched items and rare needlework manuals, embroidery expert V ronique Maillard here offers the patterns used by French women in the 1800s and early 1900s to prepare their dowry chests or to customize their household linens.
This is a genuine goldmine for stitchers: letters and motifs in shapes, sizes, and styles that can be adapted...