efined industry in past
centuries.

INSTRUCTIONS in TATTING, in EMBROIDERY, in CROCHET, in KNITTING and
NETTING, in BERLIN WOOL WORK, in POINT LACE, and GUIPURE D'ART are
prefixed to the pages devoted to these separate branches of needlework.
The whole work is interspersed with coloured and other Patterns in Point
Lace, Guipure d'Art, Tatting, Embroidery, and Designs for Monograms and
Initials for marking handkerchiefs and table-linen. The quantity of
materials required for each class of work is also given with every
pattern.

The idea of combining a series of minute and exact instructions in fancy
needlework with useful patterns was conceived some years ago by one
whose life was devoted to the inculcation of the practical duties of
woman's life, and to assisting her sex in their daily work of HOUSEHOLD
MANAGEMENT and REFINEMENT.

Her great wish was that her BOOK OF NEEDLEWORK should be as valuable in
its way to her Countrywomen as her work upon Household Management was
useful in showing the best mode of providing for the diurnal wants of
families. Other hands have brought to a conclusion her original plans.
The best attainable workers have contributed to this volume. Only those
who knew the extent of the late Mrs. Beeton's design, will miss, in the
pages now before them, "the touch of a vanished hand."

S.O.B.

_Paternoster Row,_ 1870.

CONTENTS.

TATTING INSTRUCTIONS

TATTING PATTERNS

EMBROIDERY INSTRUCTIONS

EMBROIDERY PATTERNS

CROCHET INSTRUCTIONS

CROCHET PATTERNS

KNITTING INSTRUCTIONS

NETTING INSTRUCTIONS

KNITTING AND NETTING PATTERNS

ALPHABETS FOR MONOGRAMS AND INITIALS

MONOGRAMS AND INITIALS

POINT LACE WORK

POINT LACE INSTRUCTIONS

POINT LACE PATTERNS

INSTRUCTIONS AND PATTERNS IN GUIPURE D'ART

BERLIN WORK INSTRUCTIONS

TATTING.

TATTING

INSTRUCTIONS

[Illustration: Tatting Shuttle.]

The needlework called Tatting in England, _Frivolite_ in French, and
_Frivolitaeten_ in German, is a work which seems, from all accounts, to
have been in favour several generations ago. Modern ingenuity has
discovered some ways of improving on the original plan of tatting, which
was, indeed, rather a primitive sort of business as first practised. To
Mrs. Mee, one of our most accomplished _artistes_ in all matters
connected with the work-table, belongs, we believe, the introduction of
the plan of working from the reel instead of the shuttle. By this
alteration the