BOOKLET, INSTRUCTION

Description: RECTANGULAR HEAVY PAPER COVERS WITH EIGHT 74.5CM X 25.9CM PAPER PATTERNS. COVER IS ORANGE WITH GREEN JAPANESE WRITING AND EMBLEM OF TWO FEMALE OUTLINESAT CENTER OF A COILED MEASURING TAPE. EACH OF THE EIGHT FOLDED PATTERNS HAS BLACK PRINTED DIAGRAMS AND INSTRUCTIONS WITH SKETCHES OF WHAT THE GARMENT WILL LOOK LIKE WHEN FINISHED. BACK COVER HAS BLACK AND WHITE IMAGE OF A YOUNG JAPANESE WOMAN IN A KIMONO ON HER KNEES HOLDING STRIPED FABRIC. RED JAPANESE PRINTING. *UPDATE* AS OF 2011 INVENTORY, NO. PIECES HAS BEEN INCREASED FROM 1 TO 11. THE ITEMS INCLUDE A FRONT AND BACK COVER AND 9 FOLDOUT PATTERN SHEETS.

History: BOOKLET LIKELY BELONGED TO DONOR AS A YOUNG GIRL WHEN SHE BEGAN TO SEW. DONOR RELATES THAT SHE SEWED MORE THAN HER MOTHER AND MADE A NUMBER OF GARMENTS FOR HERSELF. THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WAS ORIGINALLY FROM VANCOUVER BUT MOVED TO COALDALE FOLLOWING THE SECOND WORLD WAR WHEN THEY WERE INTERNED AT SLOCAN CITY IN THE INTERIOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA BY THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT. THE DONOR'S FATHER, REV. CANON G.G. NAKAYAMA, WAS AN ANGLICAN MINISTER IN VANCOUVER, AND THEN ESTABLISHED THE CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION IN COALDALE IN 1945 WHERE HE SERVED UNTIL 1970. SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.