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Pencil drawings stamped 'The Glasgow School of Architecture'. Drawings include:stained glass arched window;arched doorway;Greek Doric order;Greek ionic order;Greek and Roman Corinthian order;elevation and plan 'The bases of the orders of architecture;front facade of a building with ionic and Doric columns.

Painted designs on coloured paper for embroidered textiles. Includes two designs for tea cosies; two designs possibly for cushions; a design showing three cats; and two designs using black and white geometric shapes. Some of the designs appear in the illustrations folder for Dorothy Smith's 'Designing for Embroidery'.

Painted designs on paper (some mounted) for repeat patterns. Possibly created whilst studying at GSA. One item was damaged in the fire in GSA's Mackintosh Building on 23rd May 2014. Paper conservation was completed in 2019.

Pencil designs on paper for embroidery including tea cloths and tea cosies. Possibly created whilst studying at GSA.

Seven card folders containing embroidery samplers with notes for chain stitch, buttonhole, herringbone, couching, filling stitch, 'miscellaneous' and cross stitch. Possibly used as part of teacher training work.

Six embroidery samples showing a variety of stitches mainly in wool, two on binca backing and three on hessian(?).

Handwritten essay and examples of paper cut work, possibly produced for teacher training course.

Drawings include:pencil sketch male life drawing;three pencil sketches of female life drawings;a pen and ink drawing of two female figures in 1940s style dress.

Includes:

• Design notebook (1st year)
• History of architecture notebook (2nd year)
• Thesis on ornament (2nd year)
• Bookbinding notebook
• ketches for textiles
• tudent notebook
• Textile roughs notebook
• Essay on embroidery
• Plant drawings.

Four sheets of designs using leaf prints, includes one sheet in the shape of a tea cosy. Some of the designs appear in the illustrations folder for Dorothy Smith's 'Designing for Embroidery'.

Typewritten manuscript, folder of illustrations, and slides for proposed publication by Dorothy Smith 'Designing for Embroidery'.Slides marked DC 076/19 (A) have been removed from their original packaging and the packaging has been discarded.Slides marked DC 076/19 (B) have been removed from their original packaging but the packaging has been preserved.

Includes:

• Needlework Development Scheme: An account of its origins and aims
• Designing from Traditional Embroideries (Needlework Development Series)
• More Embroidery Stitches (Needlework Development Series Book No. 2)
• Embroidery Stitches by Iris Hills and Joan Whayman (Needlework Development Series No. 3)

Six sheets of designs using paper cut outs. Includes designs based on: fruit; woman and chickens; cockerel; two floral designs; and one leaf design. Some of the designs appear in the illustrations folder for Dorothy Smith's 'Designing for Embroidery'.

A collection of work by Dorothy C Smith including Glasgow School of Art student material and teacher training college material.

Includes:
GSA student notebooks

• teacher training notebooks from her time at Jordanhill teacher training college
• essays
• architectural drawings
• figure drawings
• printed designs
• paper-cut work
• leaf prints
• designs for repeat prints
• embroidery designs
• hadow work designs
• designs for embroidered textiles
• embroidery samplers
• embroidery samples
• a wooden stool with embroidered top
• a poster
• material relating to the proposed publication "Designing for Embroidery"
• material relating to the "Unbroken Thread" exhibition
• publications related to the Needlework Development Scheme

Print one: mounted print. Flower design, pink print on white paper.Print two: figurative design includes words 'Dorothy Cafe' and date '1947'.

Painted design of dancing figures and trees. Tracing paper backed with green paper. Title on back reads 'Shadow work on white organdie for tray'.

Two notebooks giving descriptions of lessons taught and observed at Jordanhill Secondary School.Volume one: October 1944 - February 1945.Volume two: February - March 1945.

Copy of The Unbroken Thread exhibition catalogue with loose handwritten notes about Dorothy's time at GSA inside. Also includes copy of exhibition poster.

Stool top in canvas stitches, dogs' hair and hand spun wool (natural brown and vegetable dyed). Label on back for The Unbroken Thread exhibition.