CROCHET FRINGE TRIMMING, FOR PIQUE BASQUES.     Godey's Lady's Book. Jan, 1863 Page 83    

Materials. – Crochet cotton, No. 10, with a suitable hook

Each piece intended for the trimming must be made separately; therefore make a chain long enough for, say, one sleeve.

2nd row.  – Single crochet.

3rd. – diamond open hem.  (if anyone knows this stitch, please email me and tell me what it is)

4th. – Single crochet.

5th. (Worked on the original chain).-- * 3 sc, 5 ch, miss 3, *repeat to the end, which finish with 3 sc.

6th. – Worked on this. * 1sc, taking up the original chain and working over the center of 3 sc; 3 sc under the chain of five, another with a picot, and 3 more plain, making 7 altogether, under the chain of five. * Repeat to the end.

7th.-- After this work on the 4th row. * 5 sc, 9 ch, miss 6; * repeat to the end, which finish with 5sc.

8th.-- * 3 sc on center 3 of 5; 2 ch, dc on 1st of 9 ch, 2 ch, miss 1, dc on next, 2 ch, miss 1, dc on next, 2 ch, miss 1, dc on last, 2 ch, * repeat to the end.

9th.-- Sc on center of 3; 3 ch, dc over dc, and over every other dc, with 2 ch between, 3 ch after the last.

Wind some of the same cotton round a card two inches wide, and knot seven strands in each of the four center holes of the shell.