02341cam a22003493u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000340011324500370014725000170018426400510020130000470025233600260029933700260032533800360035150000310038750801050041852012610052353400510178465300130183565300250184865300120187385600440188585600430192999900190197278371UtSlPG20260610134822.0mcr n260607r20261881utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aTT1 aCorbould, Elvina Mary,d1849-14aThe knitting teacher's assistant  aNew edition. 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-04-06  aSusan Skinner (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  aThe knitting teacher's assistant by Elvina Mary Corbould is an instructional manual written in the Victorian era, likely in the late 19th century. Aimed at teachers and pupils in girls’ schools, it provides practical, step-by-step guidance on knitting, with a clear focus on making stockings and socks to standard sizes.

The book begins with a concise preface and proceeds in a question-and-answer format that teaches core techniques: casting on, forming knit and purl stitches, ribbing to prevent curl, establishing a seam, fastening new yarn, recovering dropped stitches, narrowing for the calf, working the heel flat (with purl return rows and a turned center), picking up along the heel flap, shaping the gusset and foot, and decreasing and finishing the toe. It then supplies precise “recipes” for multiple sizes of stockings and socks—detailing cast-on counts, rounds before narrowings, heel and instep stitch allocations, heel length, foot length between narrowings, and toe-decrease schemes—along with a measurement scale in inches to match age and size. Summary tables at the end allow quick reference for children’s, women’s, and men’s sizes, with notes on suitable needles and wool. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cLondon: Hatchards, 1881  aKnitting  aKnitting -- Patterns  aHosiery4 uhttps://archive.org/details/krl0037632940uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78371  c119091d119091