Thank you! That will be really helpful. I had a look at your account and your work is lovely!

Fund libraries not prisons.
Fund schools not surveillance systems.
Pay teachers not cops.

Alas, the actual instruction in this book is limited to about three pages and the rest is just some rich ladies showing off their admittedly very beautiful work.

‘What a help when in conversation we do not wish to contradict; we seem to grow silent over some intricate bit of work and none can guess the little volcano that is covered with the lava of our work’

That pity didn’t last too long did it

I am DYING over here please read this beautiful misandry

Here’s a link to the book if you are also a fiber arts nerd with an interest in picking up a new skill

www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/html/warm/O-...

And now I have to go fall down another rabbit hole while I look up whatever the hell she meant by Beehives? But I’m so lolling at the idea of a mother of 10 to 12 children having the time to do anything so complicated as fiber arts in this day and age. Oh to be royalty in the early 20th century…

I’ve always wanted to learn tatting. So I put it on the desktop so I could find it and today I opened it up and scrolled down through the pages and wow. The most 1910 thing you could ever read graced my eyes. (That’s the year the book was pubbed)