American girl's book: or, Occupation for play hours (1831)
Leslie, Eliza, 1787-1858 · Boston, Munroe and Francis; New York, C. S. Francis · leaf 290
A BASKET RETICCJLE. Get a small open-work basket of a circular forrHyand without handles. Then take a piece of silk abouta quarter and half-quarter in depth, and inake it intoa square bag, leaving it open at the bottom as well asat the top. Gather or plait the bottom of the silkyand putting it down… … A THREE-SIDED RETICULE. Cut your silk into three pieces of equal size. Eachmust be about a quarter of a yard in depth, and halfa quarter wide. The sides of each must be straighttill within a fingers length of the bottom : they mustthen be sloped off to a point. Sew those threepieces of silk…
Handicraft · Amusements
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