1859 Mantle Pattern (Google Books)

[msmcknittington]

This post is really for my own reference than anything else, since I know I'm going to be too lazy to look this up again on Google Notebook.

So, I discovered last night that Google Books has a bunch of ladies' magazines and handwork manuals from the 19th century. I've saved many knitting/crocheting manuals to my library, which I've no idea how to link to. This might take you there. Most of them are from the 1840s, when there appears to have been a boom in the printing of handwork manuals. Surprise, surprise, one of the knitting patterns includes a gauge measurement. I gasped, and then promptly forgot what book it was out of.

Anyway, beneath the cut, find a pattern for a mantle from 1859, from "The What-not; or Ladies' handy-book."

EDIT: Found another fashion plate to share, this time of a "casaque pelisse." It's really more the hat that I was drawn to, which is pretty heavily decorated on the outside. She looks like she has spaniel ears!


The What-not; or Ladies' handy-book 


The What-not; or Ladies' handy-book 


The What-not; or Ladies' handy-book 


The What-not; or Ladies' handy-book 


The What-not; or Ladies' handy-book 


The What-not; or Ladies' handy-book 

The What-Not has some other fashion plates in it, too, but they're pretty spread out. The fashion sections are on pages 20, 41, 67, 91, 116, 137, 164, 188, 211 (or 215), 266, 290, and 314.

Comments

[tattycat.livejournal.com]

Link works! I feel like we're crosspollinating the awesome this month.

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

Mmm, imagine all the awesome knitting plants we could make with this crosspollination. I think it would be like the Audrey II, but with less man-eating and more booties.

[quincy134.livejournal.com]

Very cool! The Lambert book you have in your google library is, I think, one of the ones that was used as research material in Victorian Lace Today.

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

Really? That's pretty awesome. I've looked at projects from Victorian Lace Today, but I've never looked at the book itself. Internet reviews seem to indicate that there are a ton of errors in it, which I guess is pretty much par for the course for a lace book based on Victorian knitting manuals. :P

[quincy134.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I hate it when new knitting books have lots of errors. But I like Victorian Lace Today for the pictures alone. They have some lovely photos that they took in Cambridge, England.