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Figure 81 Ridged Band and Flower Edging (1916): vintage crochet pattern
A ridged band of single crochet worked in the back loop, from the side of which chain loops are thrown out and filled with a six-petal flower of double trebles; the flowers are joined petal to petal and the top is finished with trebles worked into every ridge.
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| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Skill level | Intermediate |
| Yarn weight | Lace (#0) |
| Yardage | the book gives no thread quantity for any design. (as printed; yardage not given) |
| Hook | 1.15 mm |
| Gauge | No gauge printed. Work a sample repeat and match the hook to the thread. |
| Finished size | Not printed — the piece is worked to the length required. |
| Time | about 2 hours |
Materials
- Size 50 crochet thread — approximate modern equivalent of the book's No. 50 crochet cotton
- 1.15 mm steel hook (US steel 10) — approximate for the book's No. 10 hook
- Fine tapestry or sewing needle for the ends
- Hook: Start with 1.15 mm (US steel 10) — approximate for the book's No. 10 hook; change size until the thread runs easily without splitting and the lace lies flat.
Yarn Kit & Substitution Options
This pattern calls for 350 yards of weight #0 yarn. Select a suggested yarn to see required skeins and estimated cost:
Caron Simply Soft · 100% Acrylic
315 yds per skein · High-yield yardage, silky no-scratch texture
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Abbreviations (US terms)
- chain
- single crochet
- double crochet
- treble crochet
- slip stitch
- stitch
- stitches
- skip
- repeat
- row
- back loop only
- loop
Notes before you start
- Source: "Figure 81. Edging", The Priscilla Crochet Book: Edgings and Insertions, No. 2 (Edited by Belle Robinson), The Priscilla Publishing Company, Boston, 1916. Public domain in the USA.
- As printed — materials: Crochet cotton No. 50 — the book's Materials paragraph says “crochet cotton” means the hard-twisted cotton sold as Cordonnet, Cordonnet Special, Cordichet, Kord-net and similar; Hook No. 10. Gauge: Not given.
- Modernisation note: Stitches converted by the book's own “Explanation of Stitches” (printed page 3), not by name. This book uses the older British-style naming, so its stitch names do NOT match modern US names: chain (ch) = ch; slip stitch (sl) = sl st; “double” (d), “put hook through work, draw thread through work (making two loops on the hook); thread over again and through both loops” = modern US single crochet (sc) — the book itself notes this stitch “has been, especially in wool crochet, called ‘single crochet’”; “half treble” (ht), thread over, through work, “thread over and through all three sts at once” = modern US half double crochet (hdc); “treble” (t), thread over, through work, “thread over and through two loops, thread over and again through two loops” = modern US double crochet (dc); “double treble” (dt), thread over twice and worked off by twos three times = modern US treble crochet (tr); “long treble” (lt) or “triple treble” (tt), thread over three times and crocheted off by twos = modern US double treble (dtr); “quadruple treble” (qt), thread over four times = modern US triple treble (trtr). Every stitch in these instructions has been rewritten in the modern US name and abbreviation on that basis.
- Modernisation note: The book's abbreviations are written in modern US form: d = sc, ht = hdc, t = dc, dt = tr, lt/tt = dtr, st(s) = st(s), sp = sp, p = picot, blk = block, “miss” = sk, “thread over (the hook)” = yo, “repeat” = rep, “needle” (where it is used for the crochet hook) = hook. Ordinal row names (“1st row”, “2d row”) are written Row 1, Row 2, and “1st round”/“2d round” as Rnd 1, Rnd 2. Section headings (Heading, Edge, Lower Edge, Filling) are the book's own where it prints them.
- Modernisation note: The book prints each design as one or two solid paragraphs; these have been split into one row, round or step per line. Stitch order and counts are unchanged. Where the book's own repeat markers (*, **, ***) span several lines they are kept as printed.
- Modernisation note: Thread sizes are the book's own numbering. Its Materials paragraph says that “where the words ‘crochet cotton’ are used in the text of this book, the cotton referred to is the hard-twisted cotton known by such names as Cordonnet, Cordonnet Special, Cordichet, Kord-net, etc.” “No. N crochet cotton” is given below as modern size N crochet thread, which is an approximation: modern size numbering runs the same way (higher number = finer thread) but the exact diameters are not identical. No yardage is printed anywhere in the book, so none is given here.
- Modernisation note: Hook sizes are the book's own steel numbering. The 1916 steel numbering is not identical to the modern one, so every metric size below is approximate and should be adjusted to the thread.
- Modernisation note: No gauge and no finished measurements are printed for this design; work a sample repeat and adjust the hook until the lace lies flat at the width you want.
- Modernisation note: Metric conversions added.
Row progress: 0 of 6 done (0%)
Band and flower
0 of 6 done- Ch 10, turn.Mark row complete
- Row 1: Sk 1 ch, sc in each of 9 ch, turn.Mark row complete
- Row 2: Ch 1, sc in each sc, taking up the back loop of the st to make a ridge.Mark row complete
- Rep Row 2 until there are 6 ridges (or 12 rows), always making 1 ch at the turn and being careful not to lose any sts.Mark row complete
- Turn, ch 9, sl st between the 3rd and 4th ridges on the side, ch 9, sl st at the end of Row 1. Turn, 12 sc over the ch-9, 6 sc over the next ch-9, turn, ch 9, sl st in the 7th from hook to form a loop, ch 4, tr in the loop, * ch 3, tr in the loop; rep from * 4 times more, sl st to the middle of the 12 sc, turn, (1 sc, 3 dc, 1 sc) over each ch-3, 2 sc over the 2 ch of the loop, 6 sc over the last half of the ch-9 loop.Mark row complete
- Rep from the beginning, joining the centre of the first petal of the flower to the centre of the last petal on the flower just made.Mark row complete
Working on:
Ch 10, turn.
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- Heading
- Finishing
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Frequently asked questions
Where is the Figure 81. Edging pattern from?
It was published as "Figure 81. Edging" in The Priscilla Crochet Book: Edgings and Insertions, No. 2 (Edited by Belle Robinson) by The Priscilla Publishing Company, Boston in 1916. The publication is in the public domain in the United States; this version is transcribed and modernised by crochetpatterns.io.
What yarn or thread do I need for the Figure 81. Edging?
Size 50 crochet thread. Not printed — the book gives no thread quantity for any design.
What hook should I use?
Start with 1.15 mm (US steel 10) — approximate for the book's No. 10 hook; change size until the thread runs easily without splitting and the lace lies flat. Gauge: No gauge printed. Work a sample repeat and match the hook to the thread.
