How to use Florence knitting silk
This 1880 instruction booklet was produced by the Nonotuck Silk Company of Florence, Massachusetts, and printed in Boston by the Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company for home knitters. Its pages show lettered rows of knitted lace edgings, labelled A through M, with each edging shown as a dark-backed photographic plate. A designer could draw on these scalloped, eyelet and zigzag borders as ready-made trim patterns for textile or pattern work.
