This American Thread Company booklet collects patterns for stoles and shawls worked in hairpin lace, knitting, and crochet. Clear instructions, yarn requirements, and gauge guide the home needleworker through making graceful wraps in several techniques.
Company pattern booklets like this promoted the firm’s threads while offering fashionable, up-to-date designs to handcrafters. The patterns preserve the look and methods of their era. A practical vintage collection of wrap designs, it is offered here as a free EPUB download. For collectors of vintage patterns and historians of handcraft, the booklet preserves an appealing record of the wraps and shawls home needleworkers once made by hand.