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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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Sew the card up round, foldingit over on to the margin which isnot notched. Take the purse silkand make a slip noose, and pass itround the two notches marked 1and 2, pull it tight, and bring theend out at notch 1, and pass it downthe perpendicular line to the onemarked 13; passing it inside andout again at 24; then up the lineto 2, inside and out at 3, and downagain to 23, and so on till the whole of the per-pendicular lines are covered, with the exceptionof the line at 14. Then pass the silk along thediagonal line from 14 to 6, pass the silk insideto 7, and across to 13, out at 24, from thence toNo. 8, and so on, till you have crossed all thediagonal lines, ending at 15 ; pass inside andout at 16, returning across to 4, out at 5, thenacross to 15 ; and so on, till the whole of thelines are covered, ending at 17. Then pass it
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at the back of 16, in front of 15, to the back of14. Now pass the silk round the line markeda; take the end of the silk, pass it under thepart which is passed round, and fasten it at 14.Then carry the silk down to b, keeping thethumb pressed upon the silk to keep it in Itsplace, and pass the silk round the line 6, fast-ening as before, and continue to pass the silkround and fastening it till the whole of thelines from a to g are covered. WORK DEPARTMENT. 497 No. 2.

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