Trim linens, collars, and baby clothes with Crocheting Edgings, edited by Rita Weiss!

This 1980 Dover Needlework Series paperback (ISBN 0-486-24031-2) reprints more than 100 thread edgings from classic American instruction books. Sources named on the copyright page include American Thread Crocheted, Knitted, Tatted Book No. 7; Royal Society Laces & Doilies Book No. 3 (1943); Flower Edgings Star Book No. 63 (1949); Spool Cotton 100 Useful Edgings Book No. 129 (1939) and Edgings Book No. 182 (1942); plus Popular Fashions Book 86 (1937) and Star Book for the Home No. 75 (1942). A new Weiss introduction covers short-way vs. long-way working, blocking, and U.S./U.K. stitch and hook conversions. Patterns are crochet only.

Featured content includes:

• Picot, shell, cluster, and scallop edgings numbered in original series style (e.g. Nos. 3-5 through 3-9)
• Two-color breakfast-nook and gift laces in Royal Society Eversheen
• Flower-band and heading-and-scallop trims for towels, tablecloths, and collars
• Notes on thread weight vs. finished width (page 44) and a stitch glossary (page 45)
• Period photographs of linens, curtains, and placemats in use

A complete Dover reprint of mid-century American Thread and J. & P. Coats edgings for collectors of vintage lace trim.

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