How to Use Florence Knitting Silk

CD Republication™

Originally Published in 1886!

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Here is another lovely Dakota Prairie Treasures CD Republication™! A lithographed silk knitting instruction book produced in 1886 by the Nonotuck Silk Company! Wow, the original price was 6 cents!!! The "How to Use Florence Knitting Silk" book covers the gentle home art of clothing one's family in the finest of purses, handbags, chatelaines, reticules, socks, stockings, mittens and decorative edgings!

This is a CD Republication™ of an 1886 booklet called How to Use Florence Knitting Silk Book, No. 5. You have everything you need to recreate these lovely items but the vintage/antique knitting needles (found on online!) and the vintage/antique silk or cotton thread (also found on online!) to put a pretty in every room of your home and for you and yours to wear! You just have to hunt for a little bit!!! :^)

It includesa plethora of patterns and "Rules" so you can see item will keep you busy a long time these coming cold winter months making beautiful knit items for you and yours, as gifts or to sell at autumn/winter craft fairs.

Its 100 pages contains complete instructions for making a plethora of knitting laces for clothing embellishments, curtains, linens and other items! It even has some mitten, sock and other patterns included! There are many lovely etchings demonstrating the construction, implements and embellishment techniques from the late 1880's. Scarce and intriguingly useful information jam-packed in 64 pages just waiting for your creative muse and touch!

An Excerpt:

"The seventh edition of our popular works on knitting is much larger than any of its predicessors. It contains not only all the valuable matter of earlier editions, but much else that is new and useful. comprising a most comprehensive collection of rules for Mittens, Stockings, Laces, and fancy designs relating to this subject. To this is added a chapter on Crocheted Sild Purses, elaborately illustrated with new and beautiful designs in beadwork. There will also be found an illustrated contributed article by an experienced writher on "Outline Embroidery and other Fancy Work."

Contents:

Hints to Purchasers of Knitting Silk

Washing

Edgings

Special Notice

Crocheting

Embroidery, &c.

Fancy Patterns

How to Use Florence Knitting Silk

Explanation: of abbreviations and terms used in giving directions.

"…with each of our rules for lace edgings, we state the amount of silk required for producing any given quantity of these trimmings…"

Corticelli Sewing Silk

Special Notice (guidance regarding "casting on stitches," joining a new thread, etc)

Directions for Knitting

General Directions for knitting Mittens from Florence Knitting Silk

The Wrist

Position of the Thumb

The Thumb

The Gusset

The Hand

To Finish the Thumb

Diagrams showing the manner of forming the thumb

Children's Silk Mittens

Ladies' Fancy Silk Mittens

Directions for Knitting a Hem

Ladies' Fancy Silk Mittens #2

Fancy Pattern

Fancy Pattern #2

Ladies' Fancy Silk Mittens #3

Fancy Pattern #3

Fancy Pattern #4

Ladies' Fancy Silk Mittens #4

Fancy Pattern #5

Ladies' Fancy Silk Mittens #5

Fancy Pattern #6

Ladies' Fancy Silk Mittens #6

Florence Darning Silk

Fancy Pattern #7

Florence Silk Hosiery

Ladies's Fancy Silk Mittens #7

Fancy Pattern #8

Ladies' Fancy Silk Mittens #8

FAncy Pattern #9

Ladies' Fancy Silk Mittens #9

Corticelli Embroidery Silk

Ladies Fancy Silk Mittens #10

Florence Silk Hosiery

Ladies' Silk Mittens #11

Ladies' Fancy Silk Mittens #12

Fancy Pattern #12

Ladies' Fancy Silk Mittens #13

Ladies' Fancy Silk Mittens #14

Ladies' Silk Mittens

Ladies' Silk Mittens #2

Long Silk Purse

(Miser's Bag)

Ladies' Silk Purse

Stockings

General Directions for Ascertaining the Number of Stitches Needed for Knitting Stockings

Gents' Silk Socks

Gent's Silk Socks #2

Ladies' Silk Stockings

Ladies' Silk Stockings #2

Another Rule for Knitting the Toe of a Stocking

TWO Very Detailed Table Showing the Number of Stitches Required for Stockings of Various Sizes for Children, Misses and Women

Baby Sock with Imitation Slipper

Baby's Sock

Baby's Sock #2

Fancy Sock Pattern

Fancy Sock Pattern #2

Fancy Sock Pattern #3

Fancy Sock Pattern #4

Fancy Sock Pattern #5

Fancy Sock Pattern #6

Fancy Sock Pattern #7

Fancy Sock Pattern #8

Fancy Sock Pattern #9

Fancy Sock Pattern #10

Fancy Sock Pattern #11

Fancy Sock Pattern #12

Fancy Sock Pattern #13

Fancy Sock Pattern #14

Lamp Shade with Fringe

Fancy Sock Pattern #15

Lace Edgings and Insertions

Lace #1

Lace #2

Lace #3

Lace #4

Lace #5

Lace #6

Lace #7

Lace #8

Lace #9

Lace #10

Lace #11

Insertion #1

Lace #12

Lace #13

Lace #14

Lace #15

Lace #16

Insertion #2

Lace #17

Lace #18

Lace #19

Insertion #3

Lace #20

Lace #21

Lace #22

Lace #23

Lace #24

Lace #25

Lace #26

Lace #27

Insertion #4

Lace #28

Crocheted Beaded Silk Purse

Crocheted Beaded Long Silk Purse with Monogram and Tassel

Crocheted Beaded Long Silk Purse with Fringe

Crocheted Cover for Toilet Bottle

Crocheted Beaded Silk Purse with Fringe

Ornamental Figures and Initials in Crocheted Bead-work

Bead Initials for Crocheted Silk Purses

Outline Embroidery and other Fancy Work

Linen Splasher

Linen Tidy

Linen Tray Cloth

Toilet Set

Linen Splasher

Mourning Handkerchief

Sachet

Sachet #2

Directions for several score of handsome knitted laces & edgings

(for trimming baby blankets, clothing and household decorative linens), ladies' and children's mittens and infant/children's socks (see listing photo):^)

Pretty much everything you need to make the exquisitely delicate and useful needlework items presented but the fabric, silk or cotton floss, silk yarn or thread, knitting needles, crochet hooks etc. However, these all can be readily found on online! You just have to hunt a little bit! :) Or, you can obtain the contemporary materials at your nearest fabric, craft or hobby store...

The ladies of earlier times put their hands to such marvelous work and now you can too! These are beautiful items and sure to delight you and yours! These instructions are very clear and easy to follow and yet the experience needleworker will be capable of altering as per individual needs and artistic whim.

You will appreciate the attention taken in providing a TOP QUALITY PRODUCT that you will use for many years to come. This information has been scanned into a CD-ROM Republication™ using the Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF format. You may download a FREE version of the Adobe software program at www.adobe.com .

This is NOT a copy of another CD-ROM. You will receive an ORIGINAL CD of this historic and resourceful book. The text is viewed easily from your computer or you may choose to print each page as you read this amazing book on embroidery. Every page has been meticulously scanned, cleaned and burned to preserve this ANTIQUE book's information and patterns to CD-ROM! The format of this resource has so many more advantages than the original book.

What are the benefits of Dakota Prairie Treasures' Antique Book CD Republications™?

* Every image and every page has been scanned to produce crystal clear images and you never have to deal with any crumbling old paper!

* These scans are completely sizable. You can enlarge and print according to your visual needs!

* Each page is saved in PDF format at a high dsi and is readily accessible using Adobe Acrobat (or other pdf reading software programs). This program is very user friendly and allows you to print any one specific page or the entire book!

* Each time you want to use an image, a page or pages you can print it out. Every one will be as crisp and clear as the last!

* If you spill your coffee, tea or soda on a page you just print yourself another!

* You can put all of your notes or musings on your printouts and save them in a folder for future referencing!

*Each CD-ROM comes in a protective case!

Curious about the quality of these scans? Please contact me and I will forward an image for your own personal inspection! Scale it, edit it, print it to fit your needs and you are surely going to be quite pleased with the results! You will appreciate the attention taken in providing a TOP QUALITY PRODUCT that you will use for many years to come...

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