A sheet of embroidered patterns stuck onto card. There are 15 different designs, both geometric and meandering, using black and red coloured in squares on squared paper. A black border contains all the patterns. Outside this, at the top are the words: Ukraiinskie uzori; M Shevchenko; list' 14. In the left hand margin it says: Kiev', Dozv. Tsenzuroyu 12 Oktobrya 1882r. The right hand margin reads: Lit. G. T. Korchak' Novetskago. [Textile]
embroidery patterns (patterns (textileworking: needlework)); textile
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