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 920
, thick steel or bone ; double wool. This stitch is far more effective worked in thick wool than in cotton. It is donein stripes alternately wide and narrow. For wide stripes cast on twenty-one stitchesfor narrow fifteen ; this without counting the first and last stitch, the first beingslipped, the… … 55 866 Fancy Needlework. CHAPTER CIX. .CROCHET. Materials and Implements—Stitches—Abbreviations used in Instructions. 1676. CROCHET IS NOT at all unlike knitting. Its origin was, infact, very possibly due to the ingenuity of some worker who bethoughtherself of forming loops, as in knitting, with…
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