Antiques - the sewing box

I did not forget the sewing box, well, I did, and then I figure it's worth its own post.

Behold the sewing box, slightly damaged, but you can see the flower paper and where the hasp once was.



I'm not sure why she needed five pairs of scissors, but as you can see, they're of various sizes and blade shapes. The thread colours are still quite bright, go go chemical dyes.



The pieces of lace, what I thought was an elasticated edging turns out to not have any stretch at all, so it is just a simply decorated near-white edging.



Another look at the tray outside the sewing box.