Kenneth Playfair's 1918 School Drawing Book Filled with Graphite and Watercolor Drawings corsage I believe this piece is

I believe this piece is a fairly early Creative Playthings design

Mustard and cream

with the oval cut shape of the silk akin to the format of painted miniatures

especially the fantastically beautiful patterning representing a traditional Greenland Inuit beaded collar

or ship rope

Kenneth Playfair's 1918 School Drawing Book Filled with Graphite and Watercolor Drawings corsage I believe this piece isPure joy finding this one amid a pile at an antiques shop in New Hampshire this week eaily overlooked, but I've developed a special radar for things like this! All but one page that is signed V. McClure appear to be the work of a young Kenneth Playfair (such a great name), with the year 1918 on the cover, but some of the drawings inside dated 1923. The pages are perforated, and most have come partially or all the way loose making them all the easier