The hand-book of needlework
The Hand-Book of Needlework, written by Miss F. Lambert and published in Philadelphia by J.L. Gihon in 1854, is a practical manual of stitching patterns for women doing domestic needlework. Its pictures are small black-and-white wood engravings of open lattice, netted and perforated grid patterns, each showing the pattern as it would be worked, and a designer might take from them the rhythm of repeating geometric openwork and the interlocking loop structure.
