The Columbia book of yarns
The Columbia Book of Yarns is a 1916 knitting and crocheting pattern book compiled by Anna Schumacker and published in Philadelphia by the makers of Columbia yarns for home knitters. Its pictures show finished garments photographed plainly against plain or black backgrounds: a knitted cardigan with a wide tie-front, a button-front jacket with a flat collar, a crocheted baby jacket with ribbon ties, and knitted leggings with tasselled drawstrings. A designer could take from them early twentieth-century knit textures, scalloped edges and ribbon trims.
