Ingalls' manual of fancy work
Ingalls' Manual of Fancy Work, published by J. Fred Ingalls in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1882, is an American needlework guide for home stitchers, drawn from the embroidery and fancy-work tradition. Its pictures are plain line engravings of knitted and crocheted edgings, lace-like openwork bands and darned or cross-stitched grids, and a designer could borrow their scalloped rhythms, repeating motifs and grid structures for pattern work.
