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 some of them.

 

Sorted alphabetically by title

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.   

How to Make Battenberg and Point Lace, (Nellie Clark Brown, 1900). PDF

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. 

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)    

Modern Priscilla Cook Book, 1924. 

Modern Priscilla Home Furnishing Book, 1925. 

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) 

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).

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)  

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)   

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

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, Cluny, Russian and Bruges lace, with full directions for working.   

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.   

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). 

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

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

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. 

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.   

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

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

Priscilla Crochet Book, 1903.

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

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

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

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, Fayal, Germany, Russia and far-off China, besides many in the well-known Mexican work, make this book an unusual one. [Mae Y. Mahaffey , 1909]   

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.

Priscilla Embroidery Patterns, Simple, Dainty, Up-To-Date Designs - Fall and Winter Catalog 1915-16.  .  PDF1  PDF2  PDF3

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

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 

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.

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 – Dover has a reprint

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.  PDF

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) 

Priscilla Helps for Housekeepers – Contains a collection of Everyday Housekeeping :”Helps” garnered from the experience of nearly 500 practical Priscilla housewives. 

Priscilla Helps for Housekeepers Vol. 2, 1915

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

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    

Priscilla Italian Cut Work Book   (Lillian Barton Wilson, 1914). 

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. 

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.

Priscilla Manual - Knitting, Eyelet, Hardanger, Crochet, Cross-Stitch, Hedego and Filet, MountMellick, Battenberg and Point Lace, Mexican Drawn Work  partial scan: PDF

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. 

Priscilla Needlework Book (1908, catalog of patterns and kits)

Priscilla Needlework Book for 1898: How To Make Cut Work, Point Lace and Battenburg Lace and Silk Embroidery   PriscillaNeedlework1898.pdf

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. 

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.   

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)    

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) 

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.  PDF

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) PDF

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

Priscilla Tatting Book No. 3, 1924. PDF

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.

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. 

Priscilla Wool Knitting Book – Our latest instruction on Knitting.  Full of good things for those who knit.

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

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. 

Wallachian Embroidery – This beautiful peasant work is fully described and illustrated.  Many attractive designs with lessons for working are given.  Price, 15 cents. 

 

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