1884 Knitted Lace Sample Book

Saturday, September 26, 2009

33. Second Pattern

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Simple and sweet, "Second Pattern" (from a newspaper clipping, the name implies there having been another design published at the ...
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Friday, September 11, 2009

32. Knitted Lace Insertion

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D.P.A. of Cassopolis MI submitted "Knitted Lace Insertion" to the newspaper to match a previously published edging. A trio of eyel...
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Friday, September 4, 2009

31. Aunt Mary's Lace

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"Aunt Mary's Lace" features a plain garter stitch upper edge, a lozenge-shaped motif and eyelets outlining the scalloped lower...
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Friday, August 28, 2009

30. Knife Pleated Edging

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After an August hiatus (while I settled into a new job and tended to other matters), our parade of Victorian designs returns with the only n...
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Friday, July 31, 2009

29. Smyrna Lace

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"Smyrna Lace" is a classic: diamonds framed by two rows of eyelets. One stitch is added every other row in the first half of the p...
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Friday, July 24, 2009

28. Lemon Seed Lace

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"Lemon Seed Lace" features diamonds flanked by faggoting and ladder eyelets in the upper half and the eponymous motifs lined up di...
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Friday, July 17, 2009

27. Rose Leaf Lace

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Pairs of leaves running horizontally, faggoting, large eyelets, cascading eyelets and a gently scalloped lower edge combine to make "Ro...
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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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