1884 Knitted Lace Sample Book

Friday, May 29, 2009

20. Parisian Lace

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The wagon wheel motif along the lower edge gives "Parisian Lace" a strikingly different look. The garter stitch design also featur...
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Friday, May 22, 2009

19. Knitted Lace (Wide)

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"Knitted Lace (Wide)" is aptly named. It is over twice as wide as its nearest challenger among the edgings we have seen to date. ...
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Friday, May 15, 2009

18. Double Diamond

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"Double Diamond" is a variation of a previous pattern, 6. Torchon Edge . In this version there is only one knit stitch instead of ...
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Friday, May 8, 2009

17. Lace Edging

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"Lace Edging" features faggoting along the upper edge and a row of widely spaced large eyelets against a garter stitch ground. The...
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Friday, May 1, 2009

16. English Point

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"English Point" is a garter stitch edging with two rows of ladder eyelets on either side of a panel of eyelets arranged in diagona...
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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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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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