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Gloves in Stylish Crochet

'New Models and Old Favourites' - A 1950s Coats pattern booklet for gloves crocheted in cotton. 6 designs.

Cover of Supplemantary Price list April 1916 of Jevons and Mellor. Text reads: Supplementary prise list of Needlework Materials of all kids. Wools for Knitting and Crochet, cottons, threads, silks. Canvas, linens and fancy cloths for embroidery etc. Jevons and Mellor, Manufacturers and Importers, Corporation St and Old Square. Nox No 37 Biringham. Orders amounting to 10s and upwards, if accompanied by remittance, will be sent carriage paid to any railway station in the United Kingdom. Terms:- strictly cash. All prices being closely calculated for ready money, no credit is allowed. Prices are subject to market fluctuations.

Jevons & Mellor Price List, April 1916

A Birmingham store's mail order price list, mainly of yarns for knitting and crochet.

W. H. Head & Son Price List 1918-1919

A price list of assorted haberdashery from the end of WW1, including knitting needles, crochet hooks & other tools.

Cover of Knitting and Needlework with photograph of man wearing roll neck textured sweater. (Golden Eagle leaflet 396)

Walsall Wool Stores 1939 catalogue

Includes several knitting patterns, as well as ads for leaflets then available to buy from the Stores.

Cover of The Needle. This has a border of ivy leaves with roundelst containing classica-style drawings of people in the middle. The text is in gothic script. "A magazine of Ornamental Work under the directoin of Mademoiselle Riega de la Brandardiere"

The Needle, vol. 1, no. 6

A single issue of a magazine published by Mlle Riego de la Branchardiere, in 1852.

Cover of Wookcraft knitting booklet 9. The cover is badly worn, with pring missing from the left hand side. The drawing is of a lady knitting.

Woolcraft 2nd edition

Our Collection has an extremely worn (but readable) copy of an edition published during the First World War.

Cover of 10th edition of Woolcraft. Image appears to be a sculpture representing a hank of yarn.

Woolcraft 13th Edition

1940's edition, produced to war-time economy standards. Basic patterns, e.g. socks & children's clothes.

Cover of Handbook of Knitting & Crochet. Drawing of mill and surrounding buildings and garden

Hand Book of Knitting & Crocheting

A 1912 edition of the Scotch Wool & Hosiery Stores manual.

Penny Guide to Knitting & Crochet

A precursor to Woolcraft, from 1910. Printed on cheap paper, so some illustrations are poor quality. There was probably an outer cover, missing from our copy.

Practical Needle-work No. 77

An issue in the Practical Crochet sub-series, first published in 1892. Clothes for babies & children, toys, antimacassars.