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Title: The ladies' guide to needle work, embroidery, etc. : being a complete guide to all kinds of ladies' fancy work
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Frost, S. Annie (Sarah Annie)
Subjects: Needlework
Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
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e same as 1st, 2d, and 3d rows. The border edge is made as follows : Make a chain sufficiently long to go round the top, and lower edges of the workjust finished. Work a row of treble crochet with the brown cotton; coming back,pull through each loop with yellow floss, on each side of this work with gray cot-ton; one double in the first, five treble in the next; take out the hook, put itthrough the top loop of first double, put it again through the loop from which itwas withdrawn, one double in the next stitch of brown. Repeat on both sides forthe length required. The handle is made in the same way as just described for the trimming, and isthen twisted together (see No. 6). It is laid over a strip of cardboard coveredwith silk. LADIES GUIDE TO NEEDLEWORK. 109 An oval piece of cardboard covered with silk forms the bottom of the basket.The sides as far as the crochet require a foundation of cardboard, lined with silk;and a silk top with slide is sewn to the upper edge of the silk lining.
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Fig. 83.—WORK-BASKET IN CROCHET. CHAPTER X. NETTING. The age of netting is of great antiquity, haviug been practised from the earliestages alike by the most refined and the most uncivilized nations. In the fourthchapter of St. Matthew, twenty-first verse, we read of our Saviours disciples as mending their nets; it is, therefore, probable that the art has been known forat least two thousand years. The method of teaching it by explanation is not easy, nor would Dr. Johnsonsdefinition of it induce many young ladies to learn netting. He describes it as acomplicated concatenation of rectangular angles. But I will endeavor to give amore simple explanation. The implements necessary for this branch of elegant needlework are a nettingneedle and a mesh. The material may be any strong thread, silk, cotton, linen, orwool. The variety of stitches is very great. To make the plain netting stitch, thread a netting needle, taking care to tie theend of the thread or silk firmly through the hole in it

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