Patterns for needle work : including the various kinds of embroidery, lacework, etc., with diagrams showing the methods of making the various stiches
A pattern catalogue for needleworkers issued by J. L. Patten & Co. in New York in 1882, showing embroidery, lacework and stitch diagrams for home stitchers. Numbered samples are grouped several to a plate as photographic halftones of worked cloth, giving eight-point stars, cross-stitch florals, drawn-thread grounds, and repeating borders usable as tiles, rules and textures.
