1884 Knitted Lace Sample Book

Friday, April 24, 2009

15. Narrow Edging

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"Narrow Edging" features eyelets along the upper edge, a row of very large eyelets below and a saw-tooth lower edge. The stitch co...
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Friday, April 17, 2009

14. Another Insertion

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"Another Insertion" is a chevron motif stockingnet panel with ladder eyelet borders in garter stitch along the sides. The pattern ...
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Friday, April 10, 2009

13. Shell Pattern

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"Shell Pattern" is my personal favorite thus far. Triangles of large eyelets separate the shell motifs, which are edged with daint...
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Friday, April 3, 2009

12. Tunician Lace

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"Tunician Lace" is a garter stitch edging featuring faggoting along the upper edge and a diamond motif. Although the stitch count ...
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Friday, March 27, 2009

11. Another Pretty Pattern

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This design is from the same newspaper clipping as last week's pattern, thus the "another" of the title. However, it is not an...
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Friday, March 20, 2009

10. Knitted Edging

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This week's pattern appeared in The Inter Ocean , a Chicago newspaper published from 1872 to 1907, under the title "Making Knitted ...
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Friday, March 13, 2009

9. Torchon Lace

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In which I am reminded yet again why it is a bad idea to jump to conclusions When I first started knitting the sample for this pattern, I as...
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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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