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Beeton's Book of Needlework
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Title: Beeton's Book of Needlework
Author: Isabella Beeton
Release Date: February 22, 2005 [EBook #15147]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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BEETON'S BOOK
OF
NEEDLEWORK.
CONSISTING OF
DESCRIPTIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS,
ILLUSTRATED BY
SIX HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS,
OF TATTING PATTERNS.
CROCHET PATTERNS.
KNITTING PATTERNS.
NETTING PATTERNS.
EMBROIDERY PATTERNS.
POINT LACE PATTERNS.
GUIPURE D'ART.
BERLIN WORK.
MONOGRAMS.
INITIALS AND NAMES.
PILLOW LACE, AND LACE STITCHES.
_Every Pattern and Stitch Described and Engraved with the utmost Accuracy, and the Exact Quantity of Material requisite for each Pattern stated._
CHANCELLOR PRESS
_Beeton's Book of Needlework_ was originally published in Great Britain in 1870 by Ward, Lock and Tyler.
This facsimile edition published in Great
Britain in 1986 by
Chancellor Press
59 Grosvenor Street London W 1
Printed in Czechoslovakia 50617
SAMUEL BUTLER'S PREFACE
The Art of Needlework dates from the earliest record of the world's history, and has, also, from time immemorial been the support, co