And that our grandmothers knew how to make these just as a matter of course. The instructions are actually understandable. Dewey & Thorndike in 1928 implemented a system making education standards deliberately confusing. This is why most books published before they got their diabolical hands on everything were "better" and more easily grasped. Excellent patterns in book. Museum quality specimens could be made from these.

I've gone through a number of modern netting books trying to learn and they never made the structure clear to me the way this did. If you've been not able to make it work either, we're in luck that this was preserved. Makes me want to get a lot of other Priscilla how-to, like Bead Work and Filet Crochet.

Once this book goes through making the basic square and circular nets (and hollow ones, too, to stitch to linen centers), on page 5 they start in on point d'etoile and all these other embroideries to do on the net. This is taking the tack that you only want the net as an embroidery base, in which case any of us would buy netting, hm? Don't despair. This goes on through page 20, when we start getting twisted and patterned netting, before it turns solid with graphs.

Crocheters--the many patterns for darned net on grids will translate perfectly into filet crochet. They will also work for counted cross-stitch on colored Aida, counted needle-point in two colours (more if you feel creative), or for graphed bead-work.

If you're looking for a church project, don't miss the lace edging for an altar cloth, pg 22 for instructions, 24 for picture, graph on 41.