The Priscilla Publishing
Company
CROSS REFERENCE
The Priscilla Publishing Company produced The Modern Priscilla magazine,
along with a wide variety of wonderful needlework books from the 1880’s to the 1920’s,
after which some titles were reprinted by several
other publishers. Here is a list of the
needlework and housekeeping titles that we know of, descriptions from
advertising of the time, and links to scans for a few of them.
Sorted
alphabetically by title
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Books for Children – The Priscilla Juniors’ Library
is a new, and so far as we know the only
Fancy-work Instruction Books for children.
Instructions are given in the simplest of
language. Profusely
illustrated. These books now
ready. Priscilla Juniors’ Crochet
Book; Priscilla Juniors’ Basketry Book; Priscilla Juniors’ Cross Stitch Book;
Priscilla Juniors’ Colored Cross Stitch Book.
Price, 15 Cents Each, Postpaid. No copies donated yet |
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How to Make Battenberg and Point Lace,
(Nellie Clark Brown, 1900). PDF |
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Mexican Carved Leather and English Raised Leather
– this book gives full instructions for these most beautiful and popular
forms of leather work. The book is handsomely illustrated. Price, 15 cents. no copy donated yet |
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Mexican Drawn Work Book
– Tells you how to select the linen and the thread, and
how to arrange the work in the frame. Gives illustrations and detailed descriptions of fifty different
stitches. Price,
25 cents. (Kate McCrea Foster,
1889) no copy donated yet |
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Modern Priscilla Cook Book,
1924. no copy donated yet |
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Priscilla Armenian Lace Book
– Carrying out the Priscilla policy of providing the new
and unusual in needlework. This new book gives simple, clear
instructions for mastering every step of this fascinating lacework. It gets right down to fundamentals –
teaches every single detail and then provides many choice designs for
edgings, insertions, round doilies, luncheon sets, and a number of other
beautiful pieces in Armenian lace.
(Nouvart Vashtian, 1923) no copy donated yet |
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Priscilla Baby Book – Gives
directions for a wide variety of beautiful garments in silk and wool. One of the features of this book is a
special Layette, knitted in white and a dainty shade of pink and embroidered
with Rambler Roses. Full
directions. Two
pages in actual colors. Price, 25 cents. (1915). no copy donated yet |
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Priscilla Basketry Book
– In this new Basketry Book have been included the
best of the various articles on basketry that have appeared in The Modern
Priscilla from time to time, and a variety of new material never before
published. Price, 25
cents. (Sallie G. Fitzgerald,
1911) not edited yet |
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Priscilla Battenberg and Point Lace Book
– Here are practical, illustrated directions for making lace. Each step is taken up. Over one hundred stitches are shown, both simple and complicated. Price, 25 cents. (Nellie Clark Brown, 1912, revised from
1900 edition) no copy donated yet |
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Priscilla Bead Work Book,-
This book gives directions for making all kinds of bead-work and contains a
large and attractive assortment of illustrated designs for bags, purses,
card-cases, necklaces of all kinds, pendants, chains, girdles, hair
ornaments, etc. The best book on bead-work. Price, 25 cents. (Belle Robinson, ed., 1912). PDF1 PDF2 |
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Priscilla Bobbin Lace Book
– The designs in this book take up the work from the beginning, all the tools
and materials being fully described. Beautiful designs are given for Torchon, |
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Priscilla China Painting Book
– The beginner in China Decoration, the experienced amateur and the teacher
of the art will all find this little volume a source of adequate, simple
instructions, as well as a collection of designs for a wide range of
pieces. Flat painting, working in
enamels, luster, and gold are all carefully explained from materials to process
in such a way that one wholly unfamiliar with china painting in any form can
take up the art without need for further personal instructions. All the designs are shown
actual size ready for tracing on the china.
(another
ad) A 20-page book full of practical
information for china painters.
The colors most used are fully described, and
specific directions regarding the different methods of painting are
given. This little book will be found invaluable to beginners in china
painting. Price, 15 cents. no copy donated yet |
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Priscilla Cluny Crochet Book
– Full directions for edgings and insertions for household
and personal use.
Profusely illustrated. Luncheon Sets, Dresser Sets, Doilies, Centrepieces, Pillows, Boudoir Caps, Camisoles, Candle
Shade, Baby Caps, Towels, Library Set, etc.
Also medallions , for a variety of uses. (Elsa Barsaloux,
1920). no copy donated yet |
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Priscilla Colored Cross Stitch Book
No. 1. A
book in which all illustrations are produced in the actual colors of the
work. Has four (4) full-page plates in full color, illustrating
35 separate designs and a complete alphabet.
(Ethelyn Jones Morris, ed., 1912) PDF |
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Priscilla Colored Cross Stitch Book No. 2
– A book in which all illustrations are
produced in the actual colors of the work.
This book has four (4) full pates in color, illustrating 40
designs. Facing each plate is a full page
of text matter, giving a wealth of suggestions for the worker. (Ethelyn Jones
Morris, ed., 1912) PDF |
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Priscilla Cook Book – While
this is not a Fancy Work Instruction Book, its contents are so interesting to
most women that we have listed it here.
Contains 442 dainty, appetizing and practical
recipes by the famous culinary expert, Fannie
Merritt Farmer. Price, 25 cents. no copy donated yet |
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Priscilla Cooking Course
– Twelve cooking lessons by twelve famous experts. Lessons in cooking Soups, Tea and Coffee,
Cakes and Cookies, Ornamental Frosting, Bread, Entrees, Poultry and Game,
Fish, Vegetables, Pilgrim Cookery, Salads, Canning. Forty-six interesting
illustrations. The newest book
of its kind. no copy donated yet |
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Priscilla Cotton Knitting Book
– Thirty two
pages of illustrated directions for everything knitted. Nearly eighty patterns for household and
personal use. Interesting novelties in
cameo and filet knitting, both being worked from
block patterns. (Belle Robinson, ed.,
1918) PDF |
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Priscilla Crochet Bedspread Book. Gives over thirty
handsome patterns for the popular Crochet Bedspreads. Many illustrations show the completed
spreads, also squares, hexagons, insertions and borders
which can be adapted in various ways.
All the stitches used are very simple.
This book also shows the new Priscilla Cameo Crochet. Price 25 cents. (Helen Garbutt,
ed., 1914) PDF |
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Priscilla Crochet Book, 1903. no copy donated ye |
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Priscilla Crochet Edgings and
Insertions Book. Is one of the most
popular we have ever brought out.
Nearly 43,000 sold in six months!
It contains over one hundred handsome, new crochet designs for edgings
and insertions, suitable for underwear, dresses, and a multitude of other
uses. Order your copy now. Price 25 cents. (Eliza Taylor, ed., 1915) PDF1 PDF2 |
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Priscilla Crocheted Centrepieces
and Doilies. contains
nearly 100 beautiful designs for centre-pieces and doilies, with full
directions for working. All
illustrations made direct from original pieces. Many beautiful imported designs in this
collection. (Belle Robinson, ed.,
1915) PDF1 PDF2 |
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Priscilla Cross Stitch Book – Has
nearly two hundred working patterns for different articles for which
cross-stitch is used. Many of them are
suitable for bead-work. There are also six alphabets and directions
for all kinds of canvas work. Price, 25 cents. PDF1 PDF2 PDF3 PDF4 Some of the harder-to-read charts,
cropped and enhanced: PDF5 |
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Priscilla Drawn Work Book
– Full sized details of each design are an important feature of this book,
and by their aid the most intricate patterns can be
copies with ease. Designs from Porto
Rico, |
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Priscilla Edgings and Insertions No. 2
– This second book of Edgings and Insertions contains nearly one hundred
illustrations of designs which include almost every variety of crochet. Among them are some wonderfully beautiful
designs in Filet Crochet and many unusual English and French patterns which are especially attractive. Price, 25 cents. no copy donated yet |
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Priscilla Embroidery Patterns,
Simple, Dainty, Up-To-Date Designs - Fall and Winter Catalog 1915-16.
. PDF1 PDF2 PDF3 |
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Priscilla Filet Crochet Book
– This new book gives a wide variety of patterns in floral, conventional, and
the quaint heraldic and mythological figures so characteristic of Filet
lace. Many illustrations of finished
work are given, showing the beautiful effects possible, and a multitude of
designs are carried out in block effect so that they
can be easily copied. All that one needs for this fascinating work is a spool of
thread and a crochet hook. (Belle
Robinson, 1911) PDF1 PDF2 PDF3 |
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Priscilla Filet Crochet Book No. 2. This book contains
a large number of beautiful designs.
The illustrations are from the real work and show just how the
finished pieces should look. Many of
the pieces can be adapted for a variety of uses. The new Priscilla Cameo Crochet – a most
beautiful form of work – is illustrated and described. This book, together with our Filet Book no.
1, forms a most comprehensive library on this charming work. Price, 25 cents. (Mrs.
F.W. Kettelle, ed., 1915). PDF |
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Priscilla French and Eyelet Embroidery Book
– With the aid of this new book
any one can learn this form of embroidery.
Designs given for Table Covers, Baby Wear, etc. Illustrations show stitches and a detail
of nearly every design. (Inez Redding
and Ethel Morris, 1906)
no copy donated ye. |
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Priscilla Hardanger Book
– In the opening chapters will be found the various
foundations stitches and their many combinations. Following these will be
found many attractive designs with details and copious descriptive
text, making their reproduction an easy matter. Price, 25 cents. (Nellie Clark Brown and Elma Iona Locke,
1922) no copy donated yet – |
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Priscilla Hardanger Book No. 2
– This book contains a variety of borders for table
runners, chair backs, curtains and tea cloths, all-over effects for cushions
and bags and designs for centerpieces.
no
copy donated yet |
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Priscilla Hedebo and Cutwork
Book – Designs are given for centerpieces and doilies, scarfs, pillows, bags, pincushions, sachets, etc. The Hedebo
designs are extremely beautiful and artistic, and the section devoted to
cutwork describes all the various forms of this charming and popular
work. Full directions for working all
the designs in the book are given. (Lillian Barton Wilson, 1916) no copy donated yet |
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Priscilla Helps for Housekeepers
– Contains a collection of Everyday Housekeeping :”Helps”
garnered from the experience of nearly 500 practical Priscilla housewives. no copy donated yet |
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Priscilla Helps for Housekeepers
Vol. 2, 1915 |
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Priscilla Irish Crochet Book, No. 1
– This Book has all the stitches and fillings for Irish Crochet, together
with a large assortment of floral motifs.
Full directions for working are given.
Price, 25 cents. (Lula M. Harvey, 1912) PDF1 PDF2 PDF3 PDF4 |
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Priscilla Irish Book No. 2-
This second book on Irish Crochet supplements the first very nicely, and
gives a large assortment of motifs and finished articles, with clear and full
directions for working. Price, 25 cents.
(Eliza A. Taylor, 1912) PDF |
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Priscilla Italian Cut Work Book (Lillian Barton Wilson, 1914). not scanned yet |
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Priscilla Knitting Book
– This is a most useful collection of patterns for knitting, consisting of
articles for men, women, and children.
Articles in wool predominate and all are very attractive. Price 25 cents. no copy donated yet |
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Priscilla Macramé Book – Shows
in detail how to do this fascinating form of lace work. Over 100 designs for Bags, Dress Garniture,
etc. illustrated and described. The requisite
tools for Macramé Lace are to be found in any work basket. Price, 25 cents. (Belle Robinson, 1923) no copy donated yet. |
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Priscilla Monogram and Initial Book -
Illustrates and explains in detail between seventy and eighty different
styles of initials and monograms. One
section gives crocheted initials with a block pattern of an alphabet and
directions for crocheting. Also a four page insert by which you can make any monogram
or monograms you desire. Price, 25 cents. no copy donated yet |
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Priscilla Needlework Book
(1908, catalog of patterns and kits) |
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Priscilla Netting Book – Our
Netting Book gives full directions for square and circular netting, and
details of the weaving, darning and embroidery stitches used in this
work. Beautiful illustrations of
finished work are given, and the patterns can also
be used for filet Crochet, Cross Stitch, and Bead Work. Price, 25 cents. no copy donated yet |
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Priscilla Patchwork Book
– Contains full instructions for making modern
patchwork. Twelve beautiful
quilts in appliqué patchwork are illustrated and outline patterns provided
for each. Thirty-five patterns
for pieced quilts and a number of artistic quilting patterns. No copy donated yet |
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Priscilla Punched Work Book
– The beautiful designs in this book include articles for personal wear,
table pieces, bedspreads, curtains, bureau-covers, cushions, pillows,
lamp-shades, etc. All the stitches are
illustrated and full directions given.
Price, 25 cents. (Lillian Barton Wilson 1912) scanned, not edited yet |
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Priscilla Smocking Book
– A method of preparing material for smocking stitches by means of a sewing
machine is a feature of the Priscilla Smocking Book. All the different stitches are described and illustrated by worked examples and there
are numerous applications to blouses, smocks, children’s dresses, etc. Beautiful effects are
secured by the combination of several shades of one or more
colors. (Louise Flynn, 1916) not edited yet |
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Priscilla Sweater Book –
contains directions in two sizes
for the making of eleven different sweater models; knitted and crocheted
hats, caps and jackets; a variety of garments for children and a lesson in
knitting. no copy donated yet |
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Priscilla Tatting Book – This
book contains some of the best work that has appeared in The Modern
Priscilla, as well as many new designs never before published. Full directions for the work are given and
the designs include dress garnitures, collars, handkerchiefs, centerpieces,
doilies, etc., with full directions for working. Price, 25 cents. (Jessie M. DeWitt, 1909) |
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Priscilla Tatting Book No. 1. A
lucid exposition of this fascinating work. Many new designs never before published. complete instructions.
(Jessie M. DeWitt, 1909, reprint by Needlecraft c.1923). PDF
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Priscilla Tatting Book No. 2. Contains
nearly 100 new designs, all beautifully illustrated with full directions for
working. The
newer ideas in tatting are given special attention
and many charming designs are carried out by unusual methods. (Julia E. Sanders, 1915).
PDF
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Priscilla Tatting Book No. 3,
1924. PDF
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Priscilla War Book – contains
directions, by the American Red Cross, for knitted garments and comfort
kits: lesson in knitting, and a
complete set of knitted garments for the boy scout. Information in regard to
patterns for hospital garments required by Red Cross. Price 25 cents. (Elsa Barsaloux,
1917) no copy donated yet. |
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Priscilla Wool Crochet Book
– This book consists of articles in wool for men, women, and children. The sections for babies
and children deserves special mention.
Fully illustrated. Price, 25 cents. no copy donated yet |
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Priscilla Wool Knitting Book
– Our latest instruction on Knitting. Full of good things for
those who knit. no copy donated yet |
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Priscilla Yoke Book – This
handsome book contains nearly forty patterns of yokes in crochet and
tatting. Some especially beautiful
yokes in Filet Crochet are included, and block patterns render their
execution easy and rapid. Price 25 cents.
(Georgette Batt, 1916) PDF1 PDF2 PDF3 |
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Spots – This
New Priscilla Spot Book gives certain, safe and sure methods for removing
almost every kind of a spot one can think of, and equally tried and proven
methods of renovating fabrics.
Explicit instructions are given for removing
Dye Stains, Fruit Stains, Grass Stains, Indelible Inks, Iodine, Mildew,
Perspiration Stains, and many others.
Also tells how to renovate Velvets, Laces, Feathers, Furs, etc. Send for this valuable book now. Will save you many
dollars. no copy donated yet |
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Wallachian Embroidery
– This beautiful peasant work is fully described and
illustrated. Many attractive
designs with lessons for working are given.
Price, 15 cents. no copy donated yet |
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