Lovely c. 1800 Hand-drawn Patterns (Presumed for Embroidery), Ink on Watermarked Laid Romany Spartan With a pretty cotton woven

With a pretty cotton woven plaid dress--showing yellow from the front

freehand weavings used to mend holes in cloth

Now empty of any capsules

Closed 1 1/4” w

while the Makah are located across the straight at Neah Bay

Lovely c. 1800 Hand-drawn Patterns (Presumed for Embroidery), Ink on Watermarked Laid Romany Spartan With a pretty cotton wovenI believe this these drawings were made as embroidery patterns and I can very much imagine them executed in very fine silk thread. I love them rendered in ink though, on early watermarked laid paper, with wonderful passages of detail, tiny stars and crosshatching and squiggly lines with dots to either side. Lovely. Late 18th very early 19th century European I believe, with watermark detailed in last photo, which I have not researched. 12 7 8" x 7 3