Torchon Lace-Work
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A beginner's instruction manual for making torchon bobbin lace on a pillow, written for young women and girls' schools in India and printed in Lahore in 1904. The introduction covers the pillow, bobbins, winding, hanging the bobbins, the half-hitch and weaver's knot, and the half-stitch, cloth-stitch and torchon stitch. Twelve patterns follow (edgings and insertions with Vandykes, wheels, diamonds, stars, a Maltese cross and double rose-stitch), each with a photograph of the finished lace, a pricking diagram and hole-by-hole directions naming the pairs of bobbins to work.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- 1904
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 69
- Archive notes
- Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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