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Title: A treatise on lace-making and embroidery, with Barbour's Irish flax thread
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: (Bradford, Mary E.) (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (New York) The Barbour bros. co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ead for work of this nature; it is so silken, yet crispand dainty. Barbours Irish flax I have found superior to all threadfor lace-work, and am sure ladies will take no other after givingthis a trial. TABLE OR TOILET MATS. (Contributed by Miss Anna Harris, 1103 Corning Street, Red Oak, Iowa.) Materials : Two and one-half spools of Barbours Irish flax thread,No. 40, white, 3-cord, 200-yards spools, crochet hook size 1, andY± yard of heavy butchers linen, for centres. TABLE OR TOILET MATS. 19 First mark the centres on the linen, of any shape and size desired.The set of which one is illustrated has two oval mats, one largeround mat, and two small round ones. The largest oval centre is7 x 4/^z inches, the smaller is 6 x 4 inches ; the large round centreis 6 inches in diameter, and the smaller ones 4^ inches. First,buttonhole the edges all around, over the pencil line,—and it is agood plan to stitch around this, to make a firmer edge, — using 2short and 1 long stitch. For the border :
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Table or Toilet Mats. 1. Fasten in, ch 3, and make a tc in every buttonhole stitch allaround, joining to top of 3 ch by a single. 2. Ch 4, * miss 1, a tc in next, ch 1, repeat from * all around,joining to 3d of 4 ch. 3. Ch 8, turn, a dc in each stitch of ch, * ch 1, turn, a dc in 20 barbours prize needle-work series. each of 8 dc, repeat from * 5 times, forming a solid square, miss2 tc of last row, a triple tc (thread over 3 times) in next, ch 8, miss2 tc, a sc in next, ch 6, a tc in 3d stitch of 8 ch, ch 2, a tc in 6thstitch, ch 2, a tc in top of triple tc, ch 6, turn, tc in tc, in each of 2ch and in next tc ch 2, tc in 3d of 6 ch, ch 6, turn, tc in tc, ch 2,miss 2, tc in tc, ch 2, miss 2, tc in 3d of 6 ch, turn, and work alongedge of square with sc to lower corner, miss 2 tc below, a triple tcin next, and repeat from beginning of row, alternating solid and opensquares, and joining corner of last to 1st by 1 sc. 4. Ch 5, * a dtc in 2d row of square, ch 2, a tc in 5th row, ch2, 2 tc s

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