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

Chapter 55: COLLAR IN TATTING OR FRIVOLITE [Fig. 10.]

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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.

COLLAR IN TATTING OR FRIVOLITE
[Fig. 10.]

Materials.—Cotton, No. 3; Italian net.

I may observe, en passant, that this cotton is the only one which has been manufactured expressly for Tatting, and is really suited for that work.

Work the ovals and loops as seen in the Engraving, leaving threads wherever they appear to be required; draw the pattern on colored paper, from the engraving; lay the net on, and tack the various parts of them in their places, according to the design; sew over the threads, centres, &c., with the same cotton, and cut out the net; fill in the centre of each flower with a rosette of English Point (see Part III.), worked in Evans’s Mecklenburgh, 100; the other open parts might also very effectively be filled in like manner. A muslin band must be sewed round the neck.