The Knitting Book by Riego de la Branchardiere

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Title: The Knitting Book

Author: Eleonore Riego de la Branchardiere

Release Date: November 24, 2018 [EBook #58335]

Language: English

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THE KNITTING BOOK.

THE

KNITTING BOOK.

BY

MDLLE. RIEGO DE LA BRANCHARDIERE.

THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:

SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO.,

ACKERMANN & CO., STRAND; OLIVER AND BOYD,

EDINBURGH;

AND ALL THE BERLIN WAREHOUSES.

1848.

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Ladies are respectfully informed that these articles cannot be purchased without the registered mark being affixed;

and parties wishing to manufacture them for the purposes of sale, must have the authoress’s permission.

WILKINSON & CO., PRINTERS, 1, BARTLETT’S COURT, HOLBORN HILL.

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PREFACE.

It is usually considered necessary to introduce works of any description, however trifling, with a few prefatory

remarks. Happily the days of dedication are nearly at their close, and an author has now only to direct the attention of
the reader to any particular leading features.

I trust that my endeavours in this Knitting Book, in the elementary instructions contained, with the full explanation of

terms and carefully executed illustrations, are conveyed with a distinctiveness, easily to be comprehended by the
learner. The designs are original, and have repeatedly been worked with great care, to prove their correctness; the
illustrations have equally shared my supervision; and I humbly hope and trust that it may be as successful, and give as
much satisfaction to my friends and the public, as my Crochet Book, for which I am amply rewarded by its
unprecedented success, and grateful for the many flattering testimonials received. I must here also make some
observations upon the many cheap publications that have recently appeared (two of which have copied verbatim my
illustrated instructions, even to a fault in the drawing), and to direct the attention of those of my readers competent to
understand the many plagiarisms and general unfitness as works of instruction, of the majority, if not the whole of those
publications. I should hope, and it is needless to say, that these remarks proceed not from the impulse of a spirit of
rivalry, but from a sincere conviction that the details and instructions therein conveyed are calculated seriously to
mislead, if not entirely prevent and disgust the student from acquiring a proper knowledge of these elegant and useful
employments, by their incorrectness; that, in short, they are nothing more than very imperfect arrangements, copied
from the really useful Works that have been hitherto published, and tend quite as much to injure those Who publish
from experience, as those who learn in order to derive instruction or add information to their previous knowledge.

E. R. B.

Ladies who may require instruction, can obtain cards of address at the Publisher’s, or Messrs. Barry and Sons,

Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.

☞ These designs are registered, but any person desirous of working the patterns for the purposes of sale, can have

permission upon application.

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CONTENTS.
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TERMS.

PAGE

To cast on with one Pin
1

To cast on with two Pins
2

Plain Knitting
3

To make a Stitch
3

To make two, three, or more Stitches
4

To slip a Stitch
4

To knit two Stitches together
5

To knit three Stitches together
5

Pearl, also called Seam-back, and Rib Knitting
5

Pearl, and Plain Stitches in the same Row
5

To Pearl two or three Stitches together
6

To make a Stitch in Pearl Knitting
6

To form a Round
6

To raise Stitches
7

A Row
7

A Pattern
7

To join two Pieces of Knitting together
8

A Parenthesis ( )
8

A Mark *
8

To cast off
9

Stitches over
9

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PATTERNS.

Berthe. Chantilly Pattern
10

Lace Edging for Berthe
15

Manchette, Point Lace Pattern
18

Double Collar, Malines Lace
23

Anti-Macassar Pattern
26

—— Maltese Pattern
28

Centre for Shawl, Venetian Pattern
32

Round Border for ditto
35

Fringe for ditto
38

Canezou
39

Chemisette, Genoese
40

Cap (Baby’s)
44

Crown for ditto
45

Couvre Pied, or Curtain
47

Collar
50

Lace Edging
52

—— DITTO
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INSTRUCTION IN KNITTING,

AND

EXPLANATION OF TERMS.

1

TO CAST ON WITH ONE PIN.

Take the thread, and putting it between the

second and third fingers of the left hand, leave an
end of about one yard for every 100 stitches; pass it round the left thumb, from left to right; then take the pin in the right
hand, placing it under the crossing of the thread; put the needle down the loop, and bring the thread from the outside
forward on the point of the pin; take the thread in the right hand, and passing it round the pin as A, turn the loop B on
the left thumb over the pin, and draw it tight with the end thread in the left hand, and repeat until the required number of
stitches are on the pin.

TO CAST ON WITH TWO PINS.

This is the Spanish method, and is particularly

adapted for working fine wools, by its forming a
looser stitch. Tie a loop at the end of the thread, and put it on the pin, holding it in the left hand; take the other pin with
the right hand, and put it in the loop; pass the thread between the pins, and bring it forward then with the right hand pin;
bring the thread through the loop on the left pin; there will now be a loop on each pin as C and D; then pass the loop D
on to the left pin; repeat by putting the right hand pin through the loop D, and passing the thread between the pins as
before.

2

PLAIN KNITTING.

After casting on the stitches, hold the pin with

the stitches on it in the left hand, and with the
thread turned round the little finger of the right hand pass it under the second and third fingers, and over the forefinger;
take the other pin in the right hand; put this pin into the first loop on the left pin, and with the forefinger of the right hand
pass the thread between the pins, bring the thread through, which forms one stitch; then take the loop off the left pin
and repeat.

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