The imperial macramé lace book. With numerous illustrations and instructions. Flax threads (1877)
Barbour Brothers Company · New York, W. Martin, Printer · leaf 36
it with the left hand; then divide these eight threadsinto two parts: take the first four of these threads, hold three in theleft hand, and knot the tburth thread twice over them with the righthand: do the same to the next four threads: then take the first ofthese threads, hold it in the right hand… … 14 knotted sixteen times, increase two in each to the centre ; thenbegin at the left side, take up the sixteen threads, leave out two ofthem, hold the next thread in the right hand as leader,- and knoteach thread twice on to it; also knot on the two threads of the firstsingle chain to it; then…
Lace and lace making
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