Edgings in Netting from The Young Women's Book

The Young Woman's Book: a useful manual for everyday life by Mrs. Valentine, was published in 1877.  It contains three netted edges on page 59.  All three are made by creating a strip of netting as long as needed to sew onto whatever you wanted the netting to edge. Then the remainder of the edge is net onto one side of the strip of netting and the strip is then sewed to whatever you wanted the netting to decorate.

The first of these: Edgings in Netting is very plain.

Here is my diamond mesh version of the instructions.


Row 1: using a #3 knitting needle or 1/8" mesh stick
Net 6 loops into the foundation loop.

Rows 2-15: using a #3 knitting needle or 1/8" mesh stick
Net 1 knot in each loop.

Remove the foundation loop. Tie the thread from the netting shuttle to the loose end hanging from row 1. Run the foundation loop through the loops along the other side of the netting just finished.

Along the side of the netting

Row 1: using a #8 knitting needle or 1/4" mesh stick
Net 1 knot in each loop along the other side.


If you don't want to net along the side of the strip, here is a top-down version.

The following instructions create a sample about the same size as the one above. These instructions go from the top of the netting to bottom of the netting.

Row 1: using a #3 knitting needle or 1/8" mesh stick
Net 6 loops into the foundation loop.

Rows 2-13: using a #3 knitting needle or 1/8" mesh stick
Net 1 knot in each loop.

Row 14: using a #8 knitting needle or 1/4" mesh stick
Net 1 knot in each loop.