An 1877 instruction book from Barbour Brothers, makers of Barbour flax linen thread, teaching macramé lace with their threads. After a promotional introduction on the Barbour Flax Spinning Company and its Philadelphia Exhibition success, it explains materials and basic knots (single, double and open chain, Solomon's knots, raised picot). It then gives written directions for 17 numbered patterns of insertions, edgings and scollops, each with a plate of the finished piece and the thread length needed. It closes with a reprinted Boston Evening Transcript article on lace making as a new industry for American women.