About Weldon's Practical Needlework

From Interweave Press:

About 1885, Weldon’s began publishing a series of fourteen-page monthly newsletters, available by subscription, each title featuring patterns and instructions for projects using a single technique.

About 1888, the company began to publish Weldon’s Practical Needlework, each volume of which consisted of twelve issues (one year) of several newsletters bound together with a cloth cover.

Each volume contains hundreds of projects, illustrations, information on little-known techniques, glimpses of fashion as it was at the turn of the twentieth century, and brief histories of needlework. Other techniques treated include making objects from crinkled paper, tatting, netting, beading, patchwork, crewelwork, appliqué, cross-stitch, canvaswork, ivory embroidery, torchon lace, and much more.

From 1999 through 2005, Interweave published facsimiles of the first twelve volumes of Weldon’s Practical Needlework.

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Gent's Balaclava Cap Pattern Now Available

I couldn't convince Tony to grow a handlebar mustache but he did agree to pose of a picture wearing the Gent's Balaclava.

Free pattern pdf is available here
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  1. Bill BluntAugust 7, 2012 at 1:43 PM

    Tony might yet make a Looky-Likey...

    Many thanks for Queen Victoria. The book is now on sale here

    http://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Lancashire-Parts-Cheshire-Wirral/dp/0957314108/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344371949&sr=8-1&keywords=forgotten+lancashire+ripley

    Best Wishes

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