Beeton's housewife's treasury of domestic information : comprising complete and practical instructions on the house and its furniture, artistic decoration economy, toilet, children, etiquette, domestic and fancy needlework, dressmaking and millinery, and all other household matters : with every requisite direction to secure the comfort, elegance, and prosperity of the home : a companion volume to "Mrs. Beeton's book of household management" : profusely illustrated (1879)
Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865 · London ; New York : Ward, Lock & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C. · leaf 914
ave before explained. The mode of joining bymeans of the purl is very simple. Draw the cotton that goes round the fingers ofthe left hand through the picot, or purl, with a needle, making of it a large enoughloop to pass the shuttle through. Slip it through, draw the cotton tight again overthe… … CHAPTER CV1II. KNITTING. Materials—Stockings—Casting On—Stitches—Casting Off— Ribbed Knitting. 1562. EVERY WOMAN OUGHT to learn to knit, just as every manought to be taught to swim. The latter accomplishment may save themans life. The former may save the woman from the kind of torporthat seizes the…
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