Farthingale Tailor's Supplies
  • Home
  • Store
  • Contact Me
  • Home
  • Store
  • Contact Me
Search by typing & pressing enter

YOUR CART

  • Store
  • >
  • Books
  • >
  • The Ladies' Hand Book of Fancy and Ornamental Work: Directions and Patterns from the Civil War Era

The Ladies' Hand Book of Fancy and Ornamental Work: Directions and Patterns from the Civil War Era

SKU:
$14.95
$14.95
Unavailable
per item
Add to Cart
2 available

Discover the techniques behind museum-quality pieces and treasured heirlooms with this guide to antique needlework and handcrafts. Originally published in 1859, The Ladies' Hand Book of Fancy and Ornamental Work offers well-illustrated instructions for making the kinds of highly decorated items prized by Victorian homemakers: quilts, doilies, cushions, and ornamental knick-knacks as well as embellishments for collars, hair ornaments, purses, and other items.

More than 262 engraved patterns, drawn from English, French, and German sources, encompass a tremendous array of handcrafts: applique, bead work, braiding, crochet, embroidery, knitting, knotting, lace-work, netting, patchwork, quilting, tapestry, tatting, and many other techniques. A rich source of authentic patterns, this volume also provides a historic view of the lives of nineteenth-century women in terms of their pastimes and their forms of creative self-expression.

Proudly powered by Weebly