OpenTwo archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Sewing instruction book covers” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:56 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Royal American Magazine, or Universal Repository of Instruction and Amusement, Vol. I
Isaiah Thomas · January–December 1774
Sewing instruction book covers
Artist not stated in the record · 1829
Young Man Holding a Book
Master of the View of Saint Gudula · ca. 1480
Sewing Book, I.E.A., N.Y.
The Industrial Education Association · 1886
Sewing Kit
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1874
Sewing Book, I.E.A., N.Y.
The Industrial Education Association · 1886
![Catalogue of Domestic Fashions [trade catalogue], by Domestic Sewing Machine Company](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP-19955-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Catalogue of Domestic Fashions [trade catalogue]
Domestic Sewing Machine Company · Summer 1883
Sewing instruction book samples
Artist not stated in the record · 1829
Straw-work sewing box in book form
Artist not stated in the record · between 1793 and 1815
Sewing instruction book sample
Artist not stated in the record · 1829
Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100
Sewing instruction book samples
Artist not stated in the record · 1829
The Cloisters Apocalypse
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1330
Sewing instruction book samples
Artist not stated in the record · 1829
Panel Illustrating Feminine Virtue: The Art of Sewing and Embroidery
Lin Yuncai · 17th century
Sewing instruction book samples
Artist not stated in the record · 1829
L'ami des voyageurs, ou, Etrennes instructives, curieuses et nécessaires à toutes les personnes qui voyagent, soit à pied, à cheval, en voiture, ou par eau : soit par les voitures publiques, etc. etc.
Marcilly · ca. 1820
Sewing instruction book samples
Artist not stated in the record · 1829
Still Life with Peaches
Auguste Renoir · 1881
Sewing instruction book samples
Artist not stated in the record · 1829
Instruction insert from the Transparencies series (N137) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco
W. Duke, Sons & Co. · late 1880s
Sewing instruction book samples
Artist not stated in the record · 1829
Artisans, Beauties, and Annual Events
Toyohara Kunichika · 1874
Sewing instruction book samples
Artist not stated in the record · 1829
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 68 matched · 24 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 57331 matched · 40 examined · 12 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 06:56 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.