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 36
Fig. 17 represents a ladies* sock or over-shoe, and they are themost comfortable thing a lady can have in a cod day. They can bemade of any style or color to suit the taste. … Fig. 18 represents a pair of ladies Corsets knit in the commonplain stitch, of either German worsted or common yarn. Thesemust be narrowed and widened to shape, and provided with strapsfor the shoulders.
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