Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2020 October 02 • Friday

Happy birthday!

That's quite the beautiful cover, isn't it?

And since Needlecraft was a practical periodical, you can find the bottom line about the hat and the scarf inside.

The hat: "Perforated stamping-pattern, 25 cents. Hot-iron transfer-pattern, 15 cents. Silk-finished wool to embroider, 88 cents".

The scarf: "Perforated stamping-pattern, 25 cents. Hot-iron transfer-pattern, 30 cents. Silk-finished wool to embroider, $1.60".

Also: "Stamping-paste, blue or white, for transferring perforated pattern, 10 cents and 25 cents a box".

"The stitches used are of the simplest order—mainly chain-stitch, with a touch of buttonhole-stitch where this is directed."

For the hat there's also some talk of blanket-stitches.

Also in here is a Norman Rockwell painting in a puffed wheat ad.