An 1884 American pattern book of hand-knitting instructions compiled by an anonymous experienced knitter and published by Procter Brothers of Gloucester, Mass. It opens with an introduction, materials and a glossary of knitting terms. It then gives row-by-row directions for wide and narrow lace edgings and insertions, knitted quilts and tidies, and stockings, socks, baby boots and shoes, and mittens, followed by general stitch patterns. The book ends with advertisements for baking powder, knitting cotton and a physician.