A manual of plain needlework and cutting-out (1886)
Jones, Emily G · London : Longmans, Green · leaf 114
Plain Needlework and 102 (fig. 19). The purl may be learnt by preparing a card as for the plain stitch, and by simply reversing the position of the needle — where it goes under the strands in the plain, it must pass over them in purl ; the easiest way to teach oneself is to work a card, in plain… … cutting away any of the old ends. If mending a real hole not only making a patch for the sake of doing it, enlarge the hole so as to obtain an inch or two of ravelled thread for every row of knitting. When the upper and lower loops are quite clear, and in a straight line, and the sides are also…
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