The Art of knitting
A late nineteenth-century instruction manual on knitting, published by the Butterick Publishing Company in London and New York in 1892 for home needleworkers. The four pictures are numbered stitch patterns for lace and edgings, drawn as dense black line work with the stitches picked out individually. A designer could take from them the rhythm of vertical openwork columns, zigzag scalloped borders and the scale of fine textile structure.
