The art of knitting
A how-to manual on knitting published in Boston in 1881 by Lucretia P. Hale, aimed at home knitters and needlework readers of its day. Its pictures are black-and-white engravings of knitted stitch patterns, cable panels and needle technique, showing lace-like openwork, twisted rope cables and a hand working a loop on the needle. A designer could take the interlaced cable textures and open lattice motifs as ready-made pattern ideas.
