A treatise on lace-making, embroidery, and needle-work with Irish flax threads
Instruction manual and thread catalogue issued by Barbour Brothers of New York in 1892, written by Mary E. Bradford to teach home needleworkers lace, embroidery, and crochet with Irish flax thread. Photographic plates show finished doilies, edgings, and handkerchief corners in white thread on black grounds, plus stitch diagrams: usable as radial rosettes, scalloped borders, and openwork textures.
