Super Crisp Antique Monogrammed Sewing Sampler: Patching, Seams, Stitches, Fasteners vase signed Maya 2nd half 19th century I

2nd half 19th century I believe

as well as Ispahan and Italy)

23 3/4" x 19 5/8

One finds Victorian era Tangram sets around in wood or ceramic and comprised of seven flat polygons to be arranged in a square

Super Crisp Antique Monogrammed Sewing Sampler: Patching, Seams, Stitches, Fasteners vase signed Maya 2nd half 19th century IThis 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