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Title: Godey's lady's book
Year: 1840 (1840s)
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Subjects: Women American literature Costume Arts
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : L.A. Godey
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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he occasion of a wedding,when a more important offering might not bein accordance with the degree of intimacy andfriendship of the parties. They are executedin the usual way of crochet—that is, the patternis solid and the ground open. They will requireto be completed by the addition of a fringe, andfor this an extra row of crochet must be workedround, with about seven or nine chains in eachloop, for the purpose of allowing the fringe tobe knotted into every loop. They may, if pre- ferred, be finished with a narrow crochet edging;but the fringe is equally pretty and less trouble.These designs can also be executed in nettingand darning. They form extremely ornamentaldOyleys if the netting is in white, and thedarning in the ingrain red cotton. A brightereffect is produced in this way ; and when seenon a table, well-lighted, and the dessert tastefully arranged, they appear to great advantageas the pattern is shown much more distinct1than when they are entirely white. THE LADY DIANA HAT.
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FANCY TRIMMING FOR DRESSES. TO BE MADE OF SILK OK COTTON.

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