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Title: Godey's lady's book
Year: 1840 (1840s)
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Subjects: Women American literature Costume Arts
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : L.A. Godey
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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inopen work. 31th—Gold. Across and back in open work. 38th, 39th, and 40th—Blue. Plain knitting. 41st— Gold. Across plainly, and back inopen work. 42c?—Gold. Across and back in open work. 43d—Gold. Across in open work. Cast off the twenty stitches loosely. Recom-mence at the right hand side. 34th and 35th—Blue. Plain knitting, increas-ing one in each row, as before. 36th—Gold. Across plainly, and back inopen work. 31th—Gold. Across and back in open work. 38*A, 39th, and 40th—Blue. Plain knitting,increasing one, as before, in each of the threerows. 41st—Gold. Across plainly, and back inopen work, increasing one, as before. 42c?—Gold. Across and back in open work. 43c?, 44*A, and 45th—Blue. Plain knittiDg,increasing one, as before, in the 43c? and 44*A. 46th—Gold. Across plainly, and back inopen work. 47th—Gold. Across and back in open work. Cast off. For the other mitten, etc., seeprevious directions. BLACK VELVET BRIOCHE, INTERSECTED BY BANDS OF EMBROIDERY.
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286 godeys ladys book and magazine. DESIGN IN VELVET RIBBON AND BRAIDFOR A LITTLE GIRLS FROCK. (See engraving, page 227.) Braiding is now one of the most prevailingtrimmings, it being introduced in a great va-riety of ways for both ladies and- childrensdresses. The new way of arranging braid andvelvet ribbon is a great improvement to theeffect, with very little additional trouble inworking. In the pattern now given the broadlines which form the diamond are in the ribbonvelvet, about the width shown in the illustra-tion ; the pattern on each side of the diamondsis in fine narrow braid: the centre star is also in braid. The dresses for children are at pre-sent worn elaborately trimmed with both em-broidery and braiding ; and many of them havea very foreign effect, from the contrast of theircolors, and the accompanying clear muslinchemisette up to the neck, which is now muchworn by little girls from about the age of fiveyears and upwards. The pattern given in ourillustration is remarkabl

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