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1900s Tapestry Crochet Navajo Blanket or Afghan

Diamonds and Crosses

Vintage tapestry crochet pattern from 1913 for Navaho Diamonds and Crosses Blanket or Afghan, plus a Navaho Pillow. "Tapestry Crochet is one of the most effective forms of fancy work. With it you can copy or originate textile designs of high artistic value for robes, hangings, table covers, pillows, belts, trimmings for yarn garments, etc....There are three stitches used in the work - The slip, the single crochet, the double crochet." There is a small instruction section on "The stitches, joining colors, yarns, designs, and laying out a design.

Finished size: Not available.

Materials required:
Yarn - Fleisher's Germantown Zephyr, 40 skeins total. (16 skeins/1 box red, 8 skeins brown, 6 skeins blue, 6 skeins blue and 2 skeins black.)
Bone crochet hook, No. 2

ENTIRE BOOKLET IS AVAILABLE:
http://www.bonanza.com/listings/Ebook-Tapestry-Crochet-Navajo-Blankets-Afghans-Booklet-11-patterns-PDF-0930-/138112701
[[This pattern is included in the booklet.]]

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Fleisher's Germantown Zephyr is "spun so that after it has been knotted in forming the stitch, it expands slightly thus filling up the little spaces between he stitches and giving a closer texture"

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