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[Natural wicker sewing stand]

Description: Natural wicker sewing stand with curved legs and a rectangular bottom basket and a top basket. Original paper label underneath top basket reads "NO".
Date: unknown
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

Buttonhole cutter

Description: Hand-made t-shaped steel buttonhole cutter with curved bars at top; file marks are still evident
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Sewing frame

Description: Box containing a wooden sewing frame. The lid of the box has a color picture of three girls, two are seated, in a room with draperies. They wear long dresses and are sewing.
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Thread chest, metal knobs, wooden, 6 drawers

Description: Thread chest, metal knobs, wooden, 6 drawers, turned post decoration 1 on each side of front. Maker's Marks: "Best Six Cord"/Spool Cotton for Hand and Machine/Sewing/J&P Coats/White/ Assorted Colors/Black. Lois Jean Cooper Mayer Collection, Supplement 2.
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Rug hooks

Description: Two wooden rug hooks with metal hardware
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Pigment holder

Description: Glass pigment holder with 7 hand-blown corked glass bottles containing powdered pigment; hand-turned wooden stand to hold bottles (a), has a lid with a finial (b); bottles are about 6 cm. high x 1.8 cm. diam.
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Embroidered sampler

Description: Very delicate sampler stitched on fine linen with embroidered verse, trees, birds, building, floral designs, geometric designs, and "Watnall School"; stretched on wooden frame and nailed with rusty handmade tacks
Date: 1804
Creator: Allcock, Mary
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Shaving horse

Description: Handmade wooden shaving horse
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Hand brace

Description: Hand brace (part a) with wooden head piece (part b) detached from the quill; drill (a), handle top (b), and bits (c-i).
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

[Bracelet]

Description: A bracelet from the Lois Jean Cooper-Mayer Collection, Supplement.
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Flax

Description: Twist of unbleached, retted, hatcheled flax
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Dressmakers shears

Description: Very heavy dressmaker's shears with special hinge which protrudes on both sides; marked, "New York"
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Embroidered sampler

Description: Plain weave sampler with silk embroidery, floral border, floral motifs, and poem. Text: "In Sharon's lovely Rose, Immortal beauties/ shine; Its sweet refreshing fragrance shows;/ Its origin divine./ Pleasure is a Rose, near which there ever grows/ the thorn of evil; It is wisdom's work so carefully/ to cull the Rose, as to avoid the thorn, and let its/ rich perfume exhale to heaven in grateful adoration/ of Him who gave the Rose to blow./ Mary Louise Brown, November 2nd 1829."
Date: November 2, 1829
Creator: Brown, Mary Louisa
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Quilt made of silk by Amanda Malvina Veazy

Description: Quilt made of silk by Mrs. Y. Sheppherd Veazy (Amanda Malvina) for Eugene Bibb Wallace-Catherine (Kate) Veazy wedding. Lois Jean Cooper Mayer Collection, Supplement 2.
Date: unknown
Creator: Veazy, Amanda Malvina
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Cotton card

Description: Wooden cotton carders; with metal teeth through pad; marked, "The Only Genuine Old Whittemore Patent Improved No. 10 Cotton"; from the old Glenn Crain Home in McGregor, TX
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Shuttle

Description: Boat-shaped wooden weaving bobbins; center bobbin or thread holder is missing; three holes in base, top has notches for thread holder.
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Knitting needles

Description: Wooden knitting needles; undecorated, very smooth, with one end pointed
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum
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