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Title: A treatise on lace-making, embroidery, and needle-work with Irish flax threads
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Bradford, Mary E Barbour Brothers Company
Subjects: Lace and lace making Embroidery
Publisher: (New York) : Barbour Brothers Co.
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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e the diamond or wheel, begin in the centre; 1 dk,1 p, (leaving the loop 1-4 inch long at least,) repeat until there are10 p, and close. 2. Outside of wheel, 4 p separated by 1 dk, close, allow 1-4inch of thread, and join to centre wheel. Repeat around. 3. To shape yoke, make 4 rows of wheels of 10 wheels in length,then 3 rows of 18 across; on each end of the 18 make 1 row of 7,and 2 of 6 wheels. The wheels are joined by 1 p on 1 side and 2p on the other side of the wheels, joining so that the wheels goingaround the form are joined by 2 p, and those up and down by 1. 4. To make the frill for the edge, make 57 wheels as described,joining by 2 loops at the sides. 5. Heading for frill: 3 p, separated by 1 dk, joining these smallwheels at sides; between each wheel allow 1-2 inch of thread, join-ing to large wheel by centre p of each small wheel on the upper sideof large wheel, and also the 2 p between the large wheels. Con-tinue this until 3 rows of heading are made, when with shuttle and
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Dress Yoke. 58 barbours prize needle-work series. thread join to yoke, allowing 1-4 inch of thread between each join-ing. Finish around neck and down edge of front with small wheelslike those around the outer edge of large wheels, joined the same asheading. Sleeves may be made of the same wheels, making the upper halfof them like the yoke and the narrow, lower half like the frill aboutthe yoke. Made in this way, tatting is very lacey looking and rapidlydone. SOFA-PILLOW COVER. PRIZE ARTICLE. (Contributed by Jennie R. Welch, Lawrence, Kansas.) Materials : Barbours flax thread, ecru or white, as preferred, Nos.60 and 80, 3-cord, 200-yards spools, and 2 shuttles. 1. The section shown is -J of the cover, the rosette in centrebeing completed. Work this first, with No. 60, and 2 threads.Make a ring of 1 dk, 10 p, each separated by 2 dk, 1 dk, close andfasten off. Make small ring of 7 dk, join to p of ring just made, 7dk, close ; reverse the work, using 2 threads, 5 dk; ring of 7 dk,9 p, eac

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