Identifier: treatiseonlacema02brad (find matches)
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: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

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ate sides through the 5on needle until you reach the end; then draw 10 through 10 andfasten, leaving the outside ends of 20 loops for bottom and top.Make 3 strips in this way, join by sewing the crocheted edges to thenarrow ribbon strips (each 30 inches long), turn under and hem theraw ends of the latter, then tie a pretty bow of the wide ribbonaround the centre of tidy, drawing it together. Very quickly made, and very pretty; the flax threads are lovelyfor them, rich and silky. With a little ingenuity very nandsome throws, toilet-cushion cov-ers, night-robe sachets, etc., can be made with this lace. CHEMISE YOKE.(Contributed by Mrs. Anna P. Clark, Colmar, Pa.) Materials : 2 spools Barbours flax thread, No. 70, 3-cord, 200-yards spools, and a fine steel hook. The yoke is formed by 36 wheels,— 7 for front, 7 for back, 6 overeach shoulder, 4 under the arm, and 1 under joining of 4th and 5th(under the arm) to form point of sleeve. Wheels are begun in centre by 9 ch joined in a ring. 66
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Chemise Yoke. CHEMISE YOKE. 67 i. Ch 3, 17 tc in ring, fasten with sc in top of 3 ch. 2. Ch 4, * 1 tc in next tc, ch 1, repeat from * 16 times, fastenin 3d of 4 ch. 3. Ch 3, 2 tc under 1 ch, * ch 1, 3 tc under next 1 ch, repeatfrom * 16 times, ch 1 and fasten in top of 3 ch. 4. * Ch 9, 1 sc in 1 ch between groups of 3 tc, repeat from *1 7 times, break thread and fasten. In the last row of each wheelafter the 1st, * ch 4, catch with sc in centre of 9 ch of precedingwheel, ch 4, fasten under 1 ch in wheel you are working, repeat fromlast * 3 times, then finish the wheel. Join the wheels together asworked, in this way, to shape the yoke. For edge around top and sleeves : 1. 1 sc in last loop of 9 ch next to where last wheel of front isjoined to first of shoulder, ch 9, 3 dtc in next loop (where joinedto shoulder), keeping last st of each on needle, 3 dtc in next loop,keeping last st of each on needle, then draw thread through all atonce, draw thread through st on hook, to fasten, ch 9, f

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