Reading Funny Vintage Ads while Crocheting Victorian Lace! | The Workbasket Magazine

Bit of a different type of video, but one I've been wanting to make for a long time. Hope you guys liked it! The Workbasket was a women's magazine that originally focused on crochet, knitting, tatting, embroidery, and other types of needlework, for "Pleasure and Profit". After around 1950, they began expanding into giving advice on cooking, gardening, and other things of interest to women at the time, as well as the addition of (in my opinion) much beloved sections like Women Who Make Cents and Junior Workbasket. The magazines can be found cheaply on eBay and are a wealth of information on not only needlework, but in later issues, advertising and culture. The first lot of magazines I purchased contained all twelve issues from 1952, hence why most of the ads in this video came from that year. While working on this video, I purchased another thirty, ranging from 1947 to 1955. My Website, where I am digitizing my Workbasket issues as well as my fashion catalog collection: https://20thcfashionarchive.wixsite.com/20thcfashionarchive Victorian Laces -Pansy Lace -Spartan Lace (modified to be an insertion and not an edging) -Narrow Alameda Lace These all came from my favorite (i.e. the most understandable) Victorian crochet book, Home Work. It's available for free on Archive.org. https://archive.org/details/cihm_08942/page/n5/mode/2up If you're looking to work with it, I recommend searching for the pattern you want to make on Ravelry to get a completed visual. Vintage Laces -