The imperial macramé lace book. With numerous illustrations and instructions. Flax threads (1877)
Barbour Brothers Company · New York, W. Martin, Printer · leaf 32
h thethreads are all held back, fastened down with a needle and threadon the wrong side, and then cut close. No. 4. (Threads forthis Pattern to be one yard long) Commence by pinning on the straight lines in the usual way, afterwhich fasten on the threads for working, to the top or first line.Pass… … 11 Then make a row of Solomons knots with every four threads to theend, after which loosen the third line, and knot the threads on to itas before. Then take four threads and make three Solomons knotswith them. Repeat to the end of the cushion. Then loosen thefourth line, and knot each thread twice…
Lace and lace making
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