Author : Isabella Beeton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis BEETON's BOOK of NEEDLEWORK. (Annotated) by : Isabella Beeton
Download or read book BEETON's BOOK of NEEDLEWORK. (Annotated) written by Isabella Beeton and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The needlework called Tatting in England, Frivolité in French, and Frivolitäten in German, is a work which seems, from all accounts, to have been in favour several generations ago. Modern ingenuity has discovered some ways of improving on the original plan of tatting, which was, indeed, rather a primitive sort of business as first practised. To Mrs. Mee, one of our most accomplished artistes in all matters connected with the work-table, belongs, we believe, the introduction of the plan of working from the reel instead of the shuttle. By this alteration the advantage of the shuttle being constantly kept filled with cotton was gained, and the necessity also obviated for frequently joining the thread; and to Mdlle. Riego, equally distinguished in all details appertaining to the employment of the needle, ladies are indebted for an arrangement by which the same thread used in the making of the pattern is used for fastening the work.
