Crochet Enthusiast's Library: 18 Essential Reads
Victorian Patterns, Heirloom Lace, and the Cultural History of Handmade DesignBy Esther Parnell Hewlett, Spool Cotton Co., American Thread Company, Eléonore Riego de la Branchardià ̈re
Length18h 35m
About this audiobook
Crochet Enthusiast's Library: 18 Essential Reads gathers a capacious archive of crochet instruction, design, and domestic-art history. Moving between concise pattern booklets, technical guidance, decorative projects, and imaginative adaptations of lace traditions, the volume reveals crochet as both practical craft and expressive visual language. Its range encompasses threadwork and cotton designs, wearable articles, household ornament, and intricate motifs, while standout sections illuminate the changing vocabulary through which needlework was taught, marketed, and valued. The collection brings together the work of Esther Parnell Hewlett, Eléonore Riego de la Branchardière, and influential publishing and thread-manufacturing concerns including Spool Cotton Co. and the American Thread Company. These voices connect nineteenth-century crochet's dialogue with lace-making to the twentieth-century expansion of standardized patterns, branded materials, and accessible home instruction. Their differing approaches—innovative, commercial, pedagogical, and ornamental—situate crochet within broader histories of women's domestic labor, consumer culture, and the circulation of technical knowledge. Ideal for crafters, design historians, and students of material culture, this anthology offers an unusual opportunity to read across styles, periods, and purposes in one volume. It rewards close study as both a practical resource and a record of how makers, publishers, and designers shaped an enduring craft tradition.
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Length18 hrs 35 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Edgings: Crocheted, Tatted, Hair Pin Lace
2Edgings: crocheted, tatted, hair pin lace
3Edgings
4Pineapple Pillow Case Edging #8118
5Aunt Lydia's Designs
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6Aunt Lydia's Designs
7GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
8Easy to Make Fashions: From Rochelle's Mohlon Orlon Acrylic Fiber. Volume B22
9Easy to Make Fashions: from Rochelle's Mohlon Orlon Acrylic Fiber. Volume B22
10NO. 1257 MOHLON RAGLAN COAT (AS SHOWN ON COVER) Small-Medium-Large
11NO. 1239 PONY-TAIL HAT IN CROCHET
12Sweaters He and She
13Sweaters He and She
14STAR BOOK No. 223 SWEATERS He AND She
15He or She Coat Sweater
16Beautiful, Beautiful Afghans
17Beautiful, Beautiful Afghans
18flower afghan
19Afghans
20Afghans
21Persian Print C-117
22Transcriber’s Notes
23Designs for Crazy Daisy Winder: Crochet Time Cut in Half
24To Make Daisies
25No. 1 Tablecloth OF IRISH CROCHET DAISIES
26No. 2 Party Daisies
27No. 3 Daisy Vanity Set
28No. 4 Chair Set “DAISIES FOR DECORATION”
29No. 5 Afghan “ACCENT ON DAISIES”
30No. 6 Tea Table Cloth
31No. 7 Daisy Doilies
32No. 8 Daisy Bedspread
33No. 9 Daisy Pot Holders
34No. 10 TABLE DOILY SET
35No. 11 Daisy Bed Jacket
36No. 12 Daisy Bedroom Slippers
37No. 13 Young Timer Set
38No. 14 Baby Set “SO YOUNG”
39No. 15 Best Bib’n Tucker
40No. 16 Daisy Scarf
41No. 17 DOILY “Daisy Stars”
42No. 18 Daisy Centerpiece
43No. 19 Daisy Beret and Bag
44No. 20 Daisy Vestee
45No. 21 Midwinter Daisies
46No. 22 Daisies for Sport
47No. 23 Refreshment Set
48No. 24 Afghan “DAISY GARDEN”
49No. 25 Daisy Fluff Rug
50No. 26 Rug “GARDEN GAY”
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