Designs for Hardanger embroidery
A Chicago pattern book of 1904 by Emma Peterson, published by E. Peterson, giving designs for Hardanger embroidery, a Norwegian technique of counted threadwork cut away to form openwork. The pictures show finished cloth edges and corners with square and diamond openwork panels, bordered by buttonhole-stitched bands and picots, which a designer could draw on for geometric borders, lace-like trims and cutwork motifs.
