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Title: The Ladies' Work-Table Book
Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and
Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: July 12, 2009 [EBook #29382]

Language: English

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Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A list of corrections
is found at the end of the text. Inconsistencies in spelling and
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THE

LADIES'
WORK-TABLE BOOK;

CONTAINING

CLEAR AND PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS

IN

PLAIN AND FANCY NEEDLEWORK,
EMBROIDERY, KNITTING, NETTING, AND CROCHET.

WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS,
ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE VARIOUS STITCHES IN THOSE USEFUL AND
FASHIONABLE EMPLOYMENTS.

NEW-YORK:
J. WINCHESTER, 30 ANN-STREET
1844.

INTRODUCTION.

If it be true that "home scenes are rendered happy or miserable in
proportion to the good or evil influence exercised over them by
woman--as sister, wife, or mother"--it will be admitted as a fact of the
utmost importance, that every thing should be done to improve the taste,
cultivate the understanding, and elevate the character of those "high
priestesses" of our domestic sanctuaries. The page of history informs
us, that the progress of any nation in morals, civilization, and
refinement, is in proportion to the elevated or degraded position in
which woman is placed in society; and the same instructive volume will
enable us to perc