1884 Knitted Lace Sample Book

Saturday, June 25, 2011

2.5 Knitted Ruching

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I associate "ruching" with a trim of gathered ruffles or pleats. Here the term seems to be used simply as an alternative for ...
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Friday, May 6, 2011

2.4 Star Stitch for a Shawl

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I am downright baffled by the name of this pattern. Polka Dot Lace , yes. Checkerboard Lace , sure. Even Windowpane Plaid. But Star? I just...
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Friday, March 18, 2011

2.3 Knitted Skirt

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Like our Victorian knitter's mitten pattern, Knitted Skirt is not sufficiently coherent to derive step-by-step instructions for a comple...
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

2.2 Lace for Either Thread or Yarn

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A simple saw-tooth lace with a row of faggoting along the upper edge is given a bold look by the line of large eyelets cascading down to eac...
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Friday, February 18, 2011

2.1 Lace

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Astute readers will note that this is not in fact the mittens promised as the first pattern from our second knitting notebook. When I sat do...
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Sunday, November 21, 2010

An Invitation

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Several readers have mentioned incorporating the Victorian knitted lace patterns from this blog in their own projects-- selecting one of the...
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Monday, August 30, 2010

Son of The Project

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When I announced two years ago that I had set up this blog to share my 1884 knitted lace sample book project with knitters around the world,...
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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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