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The ladies' complete guide to crochet, fancy knitting, and needlework

Chapter 15: TATTED INSERTION. [Fig. 8.]
By Ann S. Stephens
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The manual opens with a brief history of needle arts and proceeds to clear, elementary instruction and a dictionary of technical terms, enabling readers to learn stitches and techniques quickly. It provides step-by-step guidance and patterns across crochet, fancy knitting, tatting, embroidery, Berlin wool and point lace, with designs ranging from simple edgings and collars to intricate doilies, nets, bags, scarves, infant caps, and anti-macassars. Illustrative patterns and explanations cover materials, stitches, insertions, and border treatments, aiming to teach both basic execution and more elaborate decorative motifs for domestic handiwork.

TATTED INSERTION.
[Fig. 8.]

SUITABLE FOR CUFFS, BANDS, ETC.

Materials.—White cotton braid, No. 9; Crochet No. 70, and tatting-cotton, No. 3.

For the Tatting.—6 double stitches; make a picot with a fine pin; 3 double stitches, 1 picot, 3 double stitches, 1 picot, 6 double stitches. Draw this loop up, and leave a space as great as that indicated in the engraving before making the next. When a sufficient quantity of this is done, take a piece of colored paper, rather longer than you require the insertion to be, and on it rule two parallel lines, an inch apart, and another exactly between them. Take on the tatting, allowing it to touch, alternately, each outer line; then back again in the same manner, so that the threads cross at the centre line, and form a hexagonal space between every two tatted loops. Braid the outer lines and the ends; and if the piece be intended for a cuff, put a double line of braid at one end for the buttons, and also two braid loops at the other, for button-holes. A long needleful of Crochet, No. 70, must then be taken along the centre line, connecting the cross lines with a button-hole stitch wherever they occur. Then work a rosette of English lace in every space, and another when the four threads cross each other. The tatting edging is made without picots, and lightly sewed on the outer edges of the braid, both sides of which should then be finished with a row of Venetian edging.