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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER I: CROCHET
    • Instructions and Explanation of Terms
    • Medallion Collar
    • Passion Flower Design for a Sachet, Cushion, etc
    • Maltese Trimming
    • Greek Point Collar
    • Greek Point Sleeve
  • CHAPTER II: KNITTING
    • Instructions and Explanations of Terms
    • Baby's Sock
    • Gentleman's Stocking in Ribbed Knitting
    • Knee Cap, Improved Shape
  • CHAPTER III: FANCY PURSES
    • Long, Crochet Bead Purse
    • Knitted Purse, a Quaint Lantern Shape
    • Tulip Purse
    • Round Sovereign Purse
    • Persian Purse, Knitted
  • CHAPTER IV: POINT LACE
    • Instructions for Preparing the Pattern
    • rules
    • Terms of the Stitches
    • The Point Lace Sampler
    • Venetian Lace Sachet
  • CHAPTER V: FRIVOLITE or TATTING
    • Instructions and Explanation of Terms
    • Rules
    • Ribbon Insertion
  • CHAPTER VI: TRICOT ECOSSAIS
    • Rules and Instructions
    • Zouave Vest
    • Royal Plaid Couvre-Pied
    • Baby's Tippet
  • A FEW NOTES ON MATERIALS

Title: Selected Works of Mdlle Riego 19th c Crochet, Knitting, & Lace Work
Author/Designer: Mrs. Rivers Turnbull
Format/Publication Date: TPB:2007reprint of 1904 publication
Publisher: Lacis Publications, Berkeley, CA
Page Count: 126
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 9781891656842

SUMMARY- This is a reprint of Vol. 1 of a 4 volume set of the same title. The tatting section is only six pages. This is not really a pattern book for tatting - it gives you a peek at how women of the 1900s were taught needlework, and has a portrait of Mlle Riego along with a brief biographic study of her and her work. I bought it for its historical content. I own a precious handful of "The Queen"(newsprint style women's magazine and gossip rag from London) from the 1860's - part of the time period that Mlle Riego was publishing her patterns in it and cranking out her famous books.

She has a website: www.website.com