Embroidery and fancy work, containing directions for embroidering, painting, modelling, carving, etc (1899)
Belford, Clarke & Co · Chicago · leaf 234
crochet was worked in goldspangled thread, and the balls were of Hamburgh workin two shades of olive green, but the effect of the crochetwould be very good if done in very fine seine twine, orcoarse ecru linen thread. A very pretty tidy could bemade of fine seine twine crocheted after this pattern… … Fig. 110. hairpin. It should be made of stout wire, copperbeing preferable. For narrow work, one of the pinsused for crimping the hair would do, but for somepatterns it is desirable to have a wider fork. Thegimp is very useful for making various handsomeedgings being crocheted into different…
Embroidery
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