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

Chapter 61: INITIALS.

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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.

INITIALS.

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Materials.—Embroidery cotton, No. 70, white, and ingrain scarlet. These letters are particularly suitable for marking linen, and similar heavy articles. They should be done in satin stitch, with the white cotton, and then every part should have a fine scarlet thread run on each side of it, surrounding the raised part, and sewed closely over with the same ingrain scarlet cotton.

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White embroidery cotton, No. 80. The work of these letters should be very delicately done, the eyelet-holes made with a coarse needle; the point of a stiletto would make them too large. These letters are suitable for handkerchiefs.