Anyway, on to the books, the vintage books. It will be quite a task to 'translate' these vintage crochet books into modern terms, oh and diagram them as well, so that it would be useful to those in the USA and the rest of the planet, should they want it. The instructions are written in an archaic form of British crochet terms, figuring out what the 'plain stitch' is amongst all the rest of the very wordy instructions will be fun. Still, the items photographed in these books are very pretty and could be converted to for use in today's world.
I've included a sample of the instructions and a plate from one of the books. They incorporate needle lace in their crochet patterns and also include braids amongst the crochet. One braid that instantly caught my eye was the 'Bigoudis braid'. The crochet patterns using implementing this braid are quite beautiful. I know we believe our lives to be so rushed and hurried, that we use fat yarns and don't have time to make things beautiful and comforting, but it would be a wonderful event if we could slow down and create (and use) such lovely objects once more.
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I don't know about the DMC leaflets, but DMC's Encyclopedia of Needlework has a 3- or 4-digit number in the front that translates to the date, like so:
920 = September 1920
1009 = October 1909
264 = February 1964
Any mysterious 3 or 4-digit numbers in these?
They are books, not leaflets or magazines, but thank you for that bit of information, if I come across some of the magazines or leaflets, I will have a clue on their age (always good!).
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