One of the rarest year (the third from this publication)

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ORIGINAL Antique French MODE ILLUSTREE September 14,1863 magazine and Embroidery Pattern

All the photos visible enlarged in eBay's photo gallery, and after the photo of the pattern sheet, have a dress, or element of costume you can find on the pattern supplement. List below

- Several knitting or crochet works 

- Bourse de jeu

- Two complete alphabets in text and one on the pattern sheet

The pattern looks like a paper sheet with different tracings on top of each other.

A group of tracings with symbols representing the different parts of a dress, a blouse or a vest.

if you have to cut large pieces -like a skirt- you often have diagrams in the margin of the pattern.

Tracings are on both sides(except when there is an embroidery pattern)

La Mode Illustree is a French fashion magazine, written in French. eight pages with all sorts of creative ideas, sewing tips, embroidery, lace-making, and often knitting or crochet works.