Pairs of leaves running horizontally, faggoting, large eyelets, cascading eyelets and a gently scalloped lower edge combine to make "Rose Leaf Lace" one of the most complex compositions in the sample book. This is relatively large edging, with a stitch count of 34 to 39 and measuring 3¾" wide after blocking when knit in fingering weight yarn on 2.25mm needles.
You can download the full-size chart, verbal instructions and noteshere.
Rose Leaf Lace would work well with any of the twin leaf patterns such as Barbara Walker'sDouble Rose Leaf insertion.
Seems like the top part would be a decent repeat for the body of a shawl, instead of choosing yet another pattern and considering the whole thing an edging.
Ooh, gorgeous! I could see using the upper part for a horizontal band on something like a hat or a pullover, lace-kitchenered together for a full circle.
I just looked at the Barbara Walker twin rose leaf pattern on the Walker treasury website. I think her twin rose leaf looks identical to the leaf part of the 1884 pattern, just without the rest of the 1884 pattern. Maybe you've identified a source.
I began knitting lace about 15 years ago, and what began as curiosity quickly became a passion.
I have frequented used bookstores and antique shops for some 40 years, and have acquired an extensive library of works on textile arts going back to the 1850s.
This blog chronicles the patterns found in a late-Victorian composition book that was used by an anonymous east-central Illinois knitter as a knitted lace sample book. Some of the instructions were clipped out of newspapers, others written out by hand. Most were accompanied by a small sample worked in fine thread.
For more on the original book, see post #1, The Project. Phase Two of the blog documents the patterns in another late-Victorian knitter's notebook from my collection described in the August 2010 post Son of the Project. While including many knitted lace designs, the book also contains directions to make mittens, afghans, baby leggings and more.
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I think this is my favourite so far! :-)
Seems like the top part would be a decent repeat for the body of a shawl, instead of choosing yet another pattern and considering the whole thing an edging.
Lovely! I can see lots of uses for this one. I like Fiona's idea of using it for a shawl.
Ooh, gorgeous! I could see using the upper part for a horizontal band on something like a hat or a pullover, lace-kitchenered together for a full circle.
I just looked at the Barbara Walker twin rose leaf pattern on the Walker treasury website. I think her twin rose leaf looks identical to the leaf part of the 1884 pattern, just without the rest of the 1884 pattern. Maybe you've identified a source.
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