Illustrated instructions for setting up and running the Bickford family knitting machine, also for making the different articles thereon .. (1871)
Bickford, Dana. [from old catalog] · Hartford, Case, Lockwood & Brainard, printers · leaf 34
Skirts are made of all styles, sizes, and colors, in either plain orfancy stitch. Fig. 13 rej)resents a gored skirt narrowed down and knit together ;it is ornamented with colored stripes, either knit in or sewed on. Itis better to sew them on, as you can easily remove them when youwish to wash the… … Fig. U represents a glove—the hand part is knit plain ; the gaunt-let is knit in two pieces and joined on the back Avhere it is narrowed ;it is knit of two colors in the zig-zag stitch—around the wrist and topof the gauntlet it is trimmed with a narrow strip of tufting of twocolors, and a bow on…
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