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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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WORK DEPARTMENT. 490 WORK-BASKET, ORNAMENTED WITH SCALLOPED CASHMERE.
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Materials.—An oval brown wicker basket; a strip ofsky-blue cashmere; a strip of scarlet cashmere; a fewpieces of black cloth ; one dozen small shells ; four rowsof gold beads ; some straw trimming ; a skein of whitepurse silk. There are many ways of trimming and orna-menting work-baskets, but we know of nothingso new and uncommon as the small Venetianshells, which are threaded and secured to thewicker, and which give a very pretty finish tothese useful little articles. Any shaped basketmay be trimmed like the one shown in our il-lustration ; and any size may be selected, ac-cording to the purpose for which the basket isintended. Our model, being of a long shape,is especially adapted for a knitting-basket; but,if fitted with silk pockets for holding reels ofcotton, would answer nicely for a work-basket.The trimming before us consists of strips ofscarlet and blue cashmere, pinked at the edges,and embroidered in white purse silk. Piecesof black cloth are placed at intervals round theba

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