Gertrude Whiting. Tools and Toys of Stitchery. Columbia University Press 1928. Blue cloth hardcover with silver lettering. Sl darkening along edges and back cover. Quarto 357 pp Black and white plates and illus in text

Contents include : Sweet-scented Beeswax, Winders, Tells, Turns or Swifts, Scissors to Grind, Workbaskets, Workbags, Workboxes and Tables, Who Has the Thimble?, Instruments of Precision - Measures, Knitting-Needles and Crochet-Hooks, Awls, Bodkins, Prickers, Punches and Stilettos, Sharps, Blunts and Betweens, Keen-Edges Emery,  On Needle-Books and Needle-Cases,  The Humble Pin, Pincushions, The Hidden Ball and the Sock, Hoops, Tambours, Rings and frames, Bobbins, Pillows and Horses, Fast-Splitting Shuttles, Pole-Boards, Candle-Stools, or Candle Blocks, Pinking Blocks, Hackles, Spinning Wheel, Weaving, Sewing Machine