The Columbia book of yarns;
The Columbia Book of Yarns is a 1908 knitting and crochet pattern book compiled by Anna Schumacker and published in Philadelphia by the W. H. Horstmann Company, manufacturers of Columbia yarns, for home knitters and crocheters. Its pictures show knitted wrist mittens, a crocheted lace hood-scarf, and a lace shawl worn by women in high-collared Edwardian dress, offering a designer clear period examples of textured stitch and openwork lace.






