Crochet Gifts
I found some great little quick and easy crochet gifts you can make for Christmas. These are from the Corticelli Lessons in Crochet Book No. 7 published in 1917.
A Little Bit About The Corticelli Company
They produced many booklets to compliment their line of cotton and silk threads. They were famous for their silks in the early 20th century.
The company began in Massachusetts in the 1890’s producing beautiful silk
embroidery threads. Originally the Nonotuck Silk Company when it merged with the Brainerd and Armstrong Company in 1922, became the Corticelli Silk Company. Ten years later, they merged with the Belding-Hemingway Company.
Kitten Logo
It’s logo sign of a kitten playing with a ball of thread was at 42nd Street and Broadway in New York from 1910 until 1913 and was one of the earliest ads on the Great White Way, a nickname for the Midtown section of New York City on Broadway.
Crochet Patterns
The PDF file pages include instructions for:
A Wild Rose Pincushion
Lingerie Clasps
Flower and Leaf Bookmark and the Card Case shown above. The card case measures 3 1⁄2 inches long by 2 1⁄2 inches deep, making it a perfect wrapping for a gift card. Then after the gift card is spent, it could be used as a small change purse, business card or credit card holder.
There are two pages of patterns.
The first page includes the Lingerie Clasps and Wild Rose Pincushion. Here is the pdf file: Vintage Crochet Gift Patterns
The second page includes the Bookmarks and Cardcase. Here is that pdf file: Vintage Crochet Gift Patterns 2
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I wonder what the lingerie clasps used for? Does anyone know?
I looked at them and I’m really not sure. Most of the lingerie clasps from the 1920’s I found in an internet search where metal and used for holding up stockings. At first I thought they could clasp a bed jacket together, but they don’t have a clasp on each end. They go around something, or loop through a hole and clasp. So still not sure.