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Star Book 19 for the home
M-CB017 American Thread Company – Star Book 19 for the home
Needlepoint crochet for a footstool no. 1901, crocheted (no. 1902 and 1903) and knitted (no. 1904) chairbacks, complete with armrest covers, daisy motif no. 1905, crocheted doily no. 1906, tatted doily no. 1907, crocheted doily in 2 colors no. 1908, crocheted motif for table scarf of cluny design no. 1909, tatted motif for same no. 1910, porch set (placemats) no. 1911, lacy table cloth no. 1912, daisy lunch cloth no. 1913, filet and popcorn bedspread no. 1914, bridge set no. 1915, luncheon set (placemats, napkins and centerpiece) no. 1916, crocheted cross-stitch rug no. 1917, crocheted rug with tufted edge no. 1918, huck towel edge no. 1919-A, crochet-trimmed Turkish Towel no. 1920-A, crocheted flower basket no. 1921, hot plate mats no. 1922 and 1923,
Softcover stapled, 32 pages. Scanned 600dpi jpg, original size 4500 x 6300px.
Scans donated by Clara Bruning, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
Chair sets consist of a larger doily covering the chair back where a person’s head would touch it, and two arm rest doilies protecting the arm rest from the hands and their associated dirt and grease. Very useful for fabric-covered chairs, keeping the fabric clean and extending the life of the covering. We rarely see them nowadays, although if you walk through a thrift store you’ll see that the furniture on offer might have looked better if they had been protected by those chair sets. I have seen high backed chairs where the head rest was so atrociously greasy and dirty that although the chair looked comfortable, I could not bring myself to sit on it to test it. So if you want to crochet, or knit, or tat, something that will be useful as well as beautiful, look at your own furniture and see if that might be a good place for those lovely doilies that you might consider making.
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