This vintage book contains a complete guide to practical needlework, with detailed instructions for knitting, crochet, drawn thread work, netting, knitted edgings and shawls. With working descriptions and almost 3000 illustrations, this volume constitutes a must-have for modern knitting enthusiasts, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: “Sewing and Needlework”, “Weldon's Practical Knitter (Twelfth Series)”, “Weldon's Practical Knitter (Thirteenth Series)”, “Weldon's Practical Knitter. Edgings. (Fourteenth Series)”, Weldon's Practical Mountmellick Embroidery”, “Weldon's Practical Crochet (Tenth Series)”, “Weldon's Practical Crochet (Eleventh Series)”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on sewing and needlework.

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