Embroidery

Scope and Contents This collection contains basic biographical information, personal items, and realia. Biographical information includes a personal data sheet, next of kin list, prayer cards, archival research correspondence, biographical notes, obituaries, and photographs. Personal items and realia include various sewing manuals with which she taught clothing classes at Saint Scholastica High School, as well as for her own needlework. Sister Angela Coyne also created four Benedictine nun dolls, which she...

Scope and Contents

The papers of Sister Arnoldine Schwarz, OSB consist of personal data, academic records, personal correspondence, needlework samples and patterns. There are samplers of a type of lacemaking called tatting and of Swedish embroidery on cotton huck towels.