Hair-Pin Holders

June 30th, 2007 by admin


Picture of completed Hair Pin Holder

CRAFTS

Above is a picture of the hair-pin holder when finished; and below you will find a diagram of it when cut out and not yet put in shape.

It is cut, as you will observe, in one piece. The material is perforated card-board, either white or “silver.” The dotted lines show where to fold it.

A, A and B, B are lapped outside the end pieces, D, D, and held in place by stitches of worsted, long below and very short above, where the sides join. A little border is worked in worsted at top and bottom before the sides are joined.

The inside is stuffed with curled hair [note - that is what they used in 1877 - you can be creative and use something else], and topped with a little cover crocheted or knit in worsted—plain ribbing or the tufted crochet, just as you prefer. A cord and a small worsted tassel at either end complete it, and it is a convenient little thing to hang or stand on mamma’s or sister’s toilet-table. It will be an easy matter to enlarge the pattern, if this hair-pin holder would be too small.

Picture of Hair Pin Holder pattern     Picture of Hair Pin Holder folded

     St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5,
Nov 1877-Nov 1878; No 1, Nov 1877
(Now in the Public Domain: not copyrighted in the United States)

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