A short fashion-magazine item on beaded lace from Godey's Lady's Book. It notes that jetted and beaded lace are fashionable trimmings and describes a model of white bugle beads worked on white net, with suggested colour variations such as garnet on black or gold on black. The page shows a beaded bag or case (Fig. 3) and a panel of beaded lace on net (Fig. 4).

A short Work Department item from Godey's Lady's Book describing how to make a box for holding tatting. The box is made of cardboard, lined with quilted silk and covered with Java canvas, then decorated with three strips of red cloth or satin. The strips carry gold silk braid, herringbone stitch in blue, and embroidery, and are finished with tassels. Two engravings show the finished box and a detail of the braid.

A single page from the Work Department of Godey's Lady's Book giving brief instructions for Breton lace edging. The lace is made on a Brussels net foundation with the design braided in fine lacet braid and finished with a pearl edge. A materials list for one yard is given, with one illustration of the scalloped floral edging.

A single magazine page from Godey's Lady's Book (September 1873) with a line-drawn pattern for a cigar case to be braided and embroidered. The design is an arch with playing-card suit motifs, scrollwork, a bow with tassels, ivy leaves and a flower. The page also carries the middle of unrelated knitting instructions for a knitted doll, with details on arms, colors and finishing.

A one-page article from Godey's Lady's Book giving written instructions for tatting a collarette with two threads of No. 20 cotton. It describes working the large leaves in double stitches and picots (pearls), then joining them with smaller leaf motifs. An engraved illustration shows the finished repeating leaf and floral band.

Twelve pages of fashion and needlework illustrations from the August 1860 issue of Godey's Lady's Book. They include a fashion plate, an inkstand mat, a Louis XV lady's toilet engraving, apron styles (the Philippa and Lucia), a child's dress insertion, and designs for a pillow-case and a vase mat. Knitting directions for a night sock, embroidery and braiding patterns (infant's shirt, mantle, pillow-case, chemise), and a summer cloak, the Bedouin d'été, are also included. Most pages are figures with captions; only the aprons, night sock and cloak have descriptive text.

A short introductory essay from Godey's Lady's Book (1860) distinguishing costume from fashion and tracing the history of dress from biblical times through Egypt, Greece and Rome to the classical revival in early nineteenth-century Europe. It touches on dress laws, Chinese foot binding, the biblical priestly robes, and the influence of Franklin's plain dress in Paris. It closes by promising further notes on the costumes of different periods.

A single-page excerpt from the Work Department of Godey's Lady's Book giving instructions for a lace edging that combines tatting and crochet. Circles are tatted with one shuttle, joined at picots, then worked along both sides with crochet rows of long trebles, chain loops and picots. One illustration shows the scalloped edging.

A short needlework article from the Work Department of Godey's Lady's Book giving two designs for lace edging to trim fichus and veils. Materials are fine black Brussels net, crape, purse silk and small bugles. Fig. 1 is worked in overcast and satin stitch with a buttonhole and purl edge, with the crape or net cut away; Fig. 2 is worked similarly but the net is not cut away and bugles are added.

A short instructional piece from Godey's Lady's Book on making a doily from braid and lace stitches. The design is traced on cloth, braid is tacked on and its points fastened, and the spaces are filled with twisted bars and lace stitches. The border is made of braid circles filled with lace stitches and joined to the centre. Two illustrations show a round doily and a fan-shaped braid and lace piece.

A single full-page line drawing from Godey's Lady's Book (October 1855) showing an embroidered collar pattern designed to imitate Honiton lace. The scalloped collar has pointed lobes around a central opening, filled with stylized leaves, flowers, berry-like circles and other motifs. The page carries only the caption and no instructions.

An article from Godey's Lady's Book on white and coloured needle embroidery, with a short history of tapestry and the Gobelins works. It gives instructions for working muslin embroidery (running, satin-stitch, eyelet holes, button-hole, feather, glover's, herring-bone and hem-stitch, veining) and for imitating antique lace fillings. It also covers chenille embroidery on silk, handkerchief initials and crests, and embroidery on net in imitation of Brussels point-lace. Fifteen engraved figures illustrate patterns and stitches.

A one-page Work Department piece from Godey's Lady's Book (February 1878) giving instructions for a black silk side pocket with a knotted-work (macramé-style) flap and front. It describes the foundation cord, the row-by-row knotting with buttonhole loops, double knots and tatting knots, and the Josephine-knot chain that suspends the pocket. Illustrations show the finished pocket and chain and a knotted mesh panel with fringe.

Ten pages of illustrated fashion and needlework plates from the July 1860 issue of Godey's Lady's Book. They include a hand-colored outdoor fashion scene, embroidery patterns for chemises, children's drawers, shirt fronts and a handkerchief, a glove box, and a cushion. Also shown are new apron styles, bodice designs, a crochet Maltese collar, and the Salamancon lace mantle from G. Brodie of New York. Pages are almost entirely engravings with captions and little running text.

A single hand-colored fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, August 1845. It shows a mid-19th-century domestic interior with a seated woman in a lace-trimmed cap with blue ribbon and a pale striped gown, holding a small object above an infant asleep in a canopied cradle. There is no printed text on the page.

A single engraved fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, January 1843. It shows five women in an elaborate interior with a mantel clock, candelabra, draped curtains and a patterned carpet, wearing gowns of the period, including a striped dress with lace-up bodice trim. The page has no text and no weaving content; it is useful as a costume reference.

A single hand-colored fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, October 1842. It shows four women in mid-19th-century dress against a line-drawn garden and foliage background. The plate carries no printed text, so it is useful mainly as a visual reference for 1840s women's costume, gown trim and fabric patterns.

A single landscape-format fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book, July 1840, showing four women in day dress in a garden setting with shrubs and a balustrade. Costumes include a bonnet and a wide skirt trimmed with embroidered floral borders. The page has no text and no weaving content.

A single mid-19th-century fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book showing four women in plaid and check-patterned dresses in an outdoor setting among trees. The figures wear bonnets and carry accessories such as a parasol and a bouquet. The page has no legible text, so only the illustration can be described.

A single hand-colored fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, March 1844. It shows four women in mid-19th-century dress, including a woman in a green tiered silk gown with a green bonnet and a seated woman in a lavender tiered gown with a yellow scarf. The page has no text and no weaving content; it is useful as a costume reference.

A single hand-colored fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book showing four women in mid-19th-century winter outdoor dress, posed before bare trees and an iron fence. The costumes include a blue silk cape with floral embroidery and black lace trim. The page has no printed text, so it is useful mainly as a visual reference for 1843 American women's fashion.

A single hand-colored fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, April 1845. It shows six women in a parlor with draped curtains, wearing a range of day and evening dresses, including a pale blue dress with a lace shawl and blue headscarf and a dark navy dress seen from behind. The plate has no legible text and is useful as a reference for American women's fashion of the mid-1840s.

A single hand-colored fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book, April 1843, showing three women in mid-19th-century dress in a drawing room. The figures wear a blue plaid dress with a patterned shawl, a grey-blue gown with a dark bodice and white lace collar, and a pink dress with dark rosette trim. The plate has no printed text and is of interest for period costume and fabric styles.

A single engraved fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, May 1843. It shows three women in mid-19th-century dress in a domestic interior with draped curtains, a sofa, a chair and a window onto climbing plants. One seated woman wears lace-trimmed clothing. The page has no text that can be read.

A single engraved fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, December 1845, showing three women in mid-19th-century winter outerwear in a snowy outdoor scene with bare trees. Details include a dark cape with braided trim and a ribbon-trimmed bonnet. The page has no text beyond the image, so it is useful mainly as a costume reference.

A single hand-colored engraved fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, June 1844. It shows two women in an interior: a young woman in a flowered bonnet and green dress stands reading a book beside a flower-filled urn on a carved console table. The page carries no legible text, so the details of the costumes are known only from the image.

A single hand-colored engraved fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, August 1837. It shows a woman in a 17th-century style costume: a blue silk gown with a lace-trimmed bodice and tiered lace sleeves, over a gold embroidered skirt with floral scrollwork. There is no printed text on the page.

A single hand-colored fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book, December 1845. It shows a mid-19th-century domestic interior with five figures, including a woman in a green dress and bonnet bending toward a small boy in a blue jacket and plaid trousers who holds a hat. It is useful as a visual reference for American women's and children's dress of the mid-1840s.

A single engraved fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, July 1841, printed in landscape orientation. It shows five figures in mid-19th-century dress, including a woman in an off-shoulder bodice with rosette trim and a full skirt with a rosette garland, and a young girl in a short-sleeved dress. The plate carries no captions or printed text.

A single hand-colored engraved fashion plate showing five women and a young child in late-19th-century dress, posed against a garden and balustrade backdrop. The figures wear mantles, trimmed gowns and ribbons typical of the period. The page carries no readable text, so the plate is of use mainly for costume and dress history.

A single black-and-white engraved fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, July 1840. It shows four women in mid-19th-century dress, including one in a bonnet and a plaid or checked silk gown with ruffled flounces. No readable text accompanies the image in the scan.

A single black-and-white engraved fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book, July 1845. It shows four women in bonnets and fashionable day dresses in a drawing room, including striped and plaid skirts, a lace-trimmed apron, and shawls. One woman sits holding a book, and a floral arrangement stands in an urn. The page has no text.

A single hand-colored fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, September 1842. It shows four women in mid-19th-century dress, including a white striped gown with a green sash and yellow bow and a bonnet, set against a sketched garden background. The page has no text that can be read, so the plate offers visual evidence of dress styles of the early 1840s.

A single engraved fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, December 1844, showing four women in mid-19th-century dress. Two on the left wear dark outerwear, including a mantle with a lace shawl or veil draped over one arm and a bonnet. The page has no text, so the costume details come from the image alone.

A single hand-colored fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, April 1844, showing three women in an interior setting wearing mid-19th-century dress. One woman at left wears a pale blue silk dress with wide lace-trimmed flounces and a lace bonnet with blue flowers, and holds a fan. The page has no printed text and no weaving content.

A single fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, September 1843. It shows two women in mid-19th-century dress: one seated, in a bonnet and lace-trimmed mantle with a ruffled full skirt, holding a letter, and one standing, in a flower-trimmed bonnet and a striped silk or taffeta dress. The setting is a garden with a fence and a tree. The page has no printed text and no weaving content; it is useful as a costume reference.

A single hand-colored-style fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book, November 1844, set in a decorative Greek-key border. It shows two women in mid-19th-century dress; the woman at left wears a dark bodice with lace trim and fringed sleeves and holds a feathered fan. The page has no text that can be read, so only the image can be described.

A single hand-engraved fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book, July 1844, showing four women in mid-19th-century dress in a garden with a diamond lattice fence and shrubbery. One gown is striped and another is floral-patterned. The page has no caption or text, so it is useful only as a visual record of 1840s women's fashion and printed dress fabrics.

A single hand-engraved fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, July 1843. It shows a woman in a dark riding habit with top hat and veil on a prancing horse, and three women in mid-19th-century dress standing beside a tree, two in full striped skirts and bodices. The page carries no descriptive text beyond a short engraver or publisher credit.

A single hand-colored fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book, November 1839, showing three adult women and a young girl in full-skirted gowns trimmed with lace and ruffles. One gown is pink with an embroidered hem. The plate has no legible caption or printed text.

A single fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book, October 1835, captioned "Walking Dresses." It shows four figures in 1830s women's dress: two bust-length portraits of bonnet and hair styles, and two full-length figures in walking costume. Useful for research on American women's fashion and trimmings of the mid-1830s.

A single hand-colored fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, captioned "Godey's Fashions for December 1880." It shows five women and a young child in garden-setting costume of the period, including a lilac dress with lace jabot and bonnet and a blue polka-dot dress. It is of interest for late nineteenth-century American women's dress and trimmings, not for weaving.

A single hand-colored fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book for October 1880, showing six figures in 1880s dress, including women in brown and cream and in pink and cream outfits with feathered hats, a lace fan and rose trim, and a child. The only text is the caption 'Godey's Fashions for October 1880.' It is useful for research on late nineteenth-century American women's and children's costume.

A single hand-colored engraved fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book, September 1844. It shows two women in mid-19th-century day dress standing in an interior with a door, a small table holding a book and inkstand, a red-cushioned stool, and a patterned carpet. No printed text or descriptive caption appears on the page.

Five pages of fashion plates with short descriptive captions from the October 1860 issue of Godey's Lady's Book. They show the Medicis or shawl mantle, the Zouave morning robe, the Jeddo (a gray silk dress for morning calls) and the Saragossa cloak, plus a hand-colored plate of four women in mid-19th-century dress. The captions describe fabrics, colors and trimmings such as pinked silk frills, box-pleated flounces and passementerie.

Two fashion plate illustrations from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, September 1839. The first page shows three women in patterned silk, shawl, and feathered bonnet styles; the second shows two women in off-shoulder dresses with puffed sleeves, full and tiered ruffled skirts, and lace trim. The plates carry no legible text and no weaving content.

Eleven pages of fashion and needlework illustrations from the September 1860 issue of Godey's Lady's Book. They include a hand-colored fashion plate and engraved dress and cloak designs (The Japanese, Dinner or Street Dress, La Mathilde, The Tagus), plus the Resilla head covering, a braided sachet and ladies' short night-dresses. Needlework content includes full crochet instructions for a wheel-pattern tidy and embroidery patterns for a shirt bosom, pillow-cases and bolster-cases.

A single-page line engraving of a standing medieval woman in a long gown with a fitted head covering. One arm is extended outward and the other holds the skirt or draped fabric. The plate illustrates historical female dress for the period given in the catalog title (1087 to 1154) and comes from an 1836 issue of Godey's Lady's Book. It carries no text.

A one-page article from Godey's Lady's Book (September 1836) describing women's fashion in England under Edward IV, drawing on the chroniclers Monstrelet and Paradin. It covers the replacement of gown trains with wide fur or velvet borders, tall conical headdresses with trailing veils, silk girdles with ornate clasps, and gold chains. It is illustrated with engraved figures of ladies in period dress.

A one-page illustrated article on women's dress in England during the reign of Henry V (early 15th century). It describes the horned head-dress, alternatives such as golden hair-nets and rolled head-tires, and gowns with long trains, tabard sleeves, cote-hardies and inner tunics. Figures show horned head-dresses, including one taken from the effigy of Beatrice, Countess of Arundel.