A treatise on lace-making, embroidery, and needle-work with Irish flax threads (1892)
Bradford, Mary E, Barbour Brothers Company · [New York] : Barbour Brothers Co. · leaf 73
Antique Curtains, laudable desire to possess similar artistic hangings for their windows.Made to order, they are in use in the most elegant parlors. 70 barbours prize needle-work series, NETTED CENTRE-PIECE OR TIDY. [Contributed by Mrs. F. E. Parker, Everett, Wash.] Materials : One spool Barbours… … Netted Centre-Piece or Tidy. Commence with 36 stitches over the large mesh (lead pencil)into a loop of thread. Pin this loop to a pillow. Net 5 rows over small mesh (sock-needle) ; then once aroundover large mesh, putting the loops in every other stitch; oncearound over large mesh, putting 4 loops…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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