Beeton's Book of Needlework

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BEETON'S BOOK OF NEEDLEWORK.
CONSISTING OF DESCRIPTIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS, ILLUSTRATED BY SIX HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS, OF TATTING PATTERNS. CROCHET PATTERNS. KNITTING PATTERNS. NETTING PATTERNS. EMBROIDERY PATTERNS. POINT LACE PATTERNS. GUIPURE D'ART. BERLIN WORK.
MONOGRAMS. INITIALS AND NAMES. PILLOW LACE, AND LACE STITCHES.
_Every Pattern and Stitch Described and Engraved with the utmost Accuracy, and the Exact Quantity of Material requisite for each Pattern stated._
CHANCELLOR PRESS
_Beeton's Book of Needlework_ was originally published in Great Britain in 1870 by Ward, Lock and Tyler.
This facsimile edition published in Great Britain in 1986 by Chancellor Press 59 Grosvenor Street London W 1
Printed in Czechoslovakia 50617
SAMUEL BUTLER'S PREFACE The Art of Needlework dates from the earliest record of the world's history, and has, ...