A single-page charted embroidery design from Peterson's Magazine, January 1885, issued to subscribers as a New Year's gift. It shows a vertical border or stripe worked on squared grid paper, with red and pink carnations, buds, and green and olive leaves on scrolling stems. It is meant for a curtain border or a chair stripe.

A single-page illustration from Peterson's Magazine, February 1876, showing a charted needlework design for a sofa cushion with a matching border. The square field is filled with repeating geometric and floral motifs including scrolling leaves, lozenges, checkered panels and rosettes. No instructions are included in the scanned text.

Seven pages of fashion and needlework illustrations from the January 1858 issue of Peterson's Magazine. They include a colored grid chart of a grape and vine-leaf design, initials for marking, and engravings of a shawl cloak, infant's cap, cloak, walking coat, fichu pelerine, sleeves, berthe, new style collar, bonnets and children's fashions. An embroidery insertion pattern and a netted window curtain pattern are also shown. Almost all of the text consists of captions.

Eight pages of engraved fashion and needlework plates from the April 1858 issue of Peterson's Magazine. They include a hand-colored Paris fashion plate, a sacque dress, a German work-basket, crochet and lace patterns (neck-ribbon, collar, sleeve), embroidery designs including an infant's bodice, braiding patterns including a pin-cushion top, and spring bonnets, a baby's hat, a cape and a fichu. The pages contain captions only, with no running text.

Seven pages of engraved illustrations from the August 1858 issue of Peterson's Magazine. They include a hand-colored Paris fashion plate (Les Modes Parisiennes) and a set of needlework and costume patterns: marking names and initials, petticoat and child's dress embroidery, handkerchief corners, insertions, a patchwork quilt pattern, an appliqué glove-box top, a chain-stitch night-cap, a braiding pattern and a black lace mantilla. It also shows a patented adjustable bustle skirt frame. Captions are the only text.

Seven illustrated pages from the May 1858 issue of Peterson's Magazine showing fashion and needlework designs. They include a hand-colored Paris fashion plate, illustrations of head-dresses, a cape and a fichu, and a little boy's sack coat with sleeve patterns. Line-drawn embroidery and braiding patterns cover a collar, cuff, handkerchief corner and border, flannel embroidery to be worked in silk, and part of a baby's French embroidered cap. The pages contain only captions, with no running text.

Eight pages of fashion and needlework plates from Peterson's Magazine, February 1858. They include a Paris fashion plate (Les Modes Parisiennes), a crocheted purse, hair bandeaux, head-dresses, a lace berthe and black lace cape, the Eugenie dress, an embroidered collar pattern, a handkerchief corner design, a name for marking, and children's fashions. The pages are almost entirely illustrations with only captions.

A set of 18 engraved and hand-colored plates from Peterson's Magazine, March 1858, showing mid-19th-century fashion and needlework. They include Paris fashion plates, bonnets, head-dresses, collars, sleeves, children's fashions, a morning robe, a fichu and a basque. Needlework designs include embroidery patterns, braiding, a chain-stitch cuff, a bead-net head-dress, a toilet sachet, a slipper watch-basket, and crochet items (a square-crochet d'oyley and a petticoat border). The pages are almost entirely illustrations with captions only.

Seven pages of fashion and needlework illustrations from the September 1858 issue of Peterson's Magazine. They include a Paris fashion plate, a fashionable fan, a fall walking dress, new bonnet styles, a parasol and children's fashions. Needlework patterns include a crochet watch-hook, a handkerchief border with initials, a guipure border, collar designs, a handkerchief corner, embroidered braces and a wheel edging.

Seven engraved plates from the June 1858 issue of Peterson's Magazine, covering fashion and needlework. They include a hand-colored Paris fashion plate (Les Modes Parisiennes), bridal head-dresses, a carriage costume, summer bonnets, a head-dress and a pichu (lace collar). Needlework designs include a handkerchief corner with monogram, a bead-work pattern, a handkerchief box front, a hanging what-not with embroidered panel and fringe, and a grape-pattern edging, plus a Raphael body and skirt pattern. There is almost no running text, only captions.

Ten pages of illustrated plates from the December 1858 issue of Peterson's Magazine, covering Paris fashion plates and needlework designs. The plates show a morning dress and a plaid walking dress, children's and infant's garments, and a bead flower stand pattern. They also include a crochet bracelet with bugles, a tassel cover, embroidery for an infant's cloak and a tobacco pouch, smoking cap patterns, a braiding pattern, name marking, a handkerchief corner, and infant's moccasins. The pages are mostly captions with little running text.

Eight pages of illustrations from the July 1858 issue of Peterson's Magazine, covering mid-19th-century women's and children's fashion and needlework. They include a hand-colored Paris fashion plate (Les Modes Parisiennes), millinery and shawl engravings, a watering-place costume, lace mantillas for summer, and children's fashions. Embroidery and needlework patterns include a petticoat bottom, a collar and cuff, a skirt pattern, a baby's bassinet cover, and an escallop shell fringe. There is almost no running text, only captions.

Eight pages of engraved fashion plates and needlework patterns from the November 1858 issue of Peterson's Magazine. The plates show Parisian modes, head-dresses, a cape and sleeve, children's garments (a boy's pardessus and a child's sacque), a chemisette, a morning robe, and bonnets and a cable cloak for November. Two pages give embroidery and whitework patterns for a collar and cuff, a skirt bottom, and a pearl pincushion.

Seven pages of illustrations from the October 1858 issue of Peterson's Magazine. They include two hand-colored or engraved fashion plates of mid-19th-century Parisian dress, a mantle called the Telegraph Mantle, and engravings of bonnets, caps, head-dresses and a cape. The set also has an eyelet-hole marking alphabet and braiding patterns for transfer. There is little running text, mostly captions.

A one-page nineteenth-century magazine pattern for a tatted edging by Mrs. Pullan, with an engraved illustration of three repeated scalloped floral and teardrop motifs. The text gives brief working directions using double stitches, pin-stitches (picots) and overcast stitches, recommends a rather coarse cotton, and refers readers to earlier elementary instructions for tatting.

A single-page charted pattern for a tidy (antimacassar) with a stag's head motif, printed in blue on a square grid with a border. It comes from Peterson's Magazine, a nineteenth-century American women's periodical. The page carries only the title and the chart, with no instructions in the sampled text.