Eléonore Riego de la Branchardière’s The Abergeldie Winter Book is a Victorian needlework pattern book offering designs suited to the winter season. From the pen of one of the era’s most celebrated needlework authorities, it presents knitting, crochet, and related patterns with detailed directions.
Riego de la Branchardière’s booklets were prized by fashionable handcrafters and shaped the ornamental taste of the period. The designs reflect the warm, decorative needlework favored for winter. A classic of Victorian fancy work, it is offered here as a free EPUB download. For collectors and historians of needlework, the booklet preserves both the techniques and the decorative tastes of fashionable Victorian handcraft for the colder months.