Princess Louise
Posted by: Fats in: NeedleworksI finally finished the purple crocheted bag. The pattern is from Corticelli Lessons in Crochet Book I (also a few new designs for knitting), published by the Corticelli Silk Mills, Florence Massachusets, Copyright 1916.
The bag required the “Princess” Pearl Crochet Cotton made by the Corticelli Silk Mills. They also produce CMC Cardonnet and Corticelli Silk. A look at thread labels Belding Coritcelli Richardson and the Coticelli cat.
An even larger and older thread company is DMC (History of the company Dollfus Mieg & Cie).
And it turns out the author of my old needlwork book:
In 1886, DMC published “The Complete Encyclopaedia of Needlework” by the Austrian Theresa von Dillmont, which was translated into 17 languages and published in more than two million copies.
On the page showing a photo of the bag (referred to as a work bag), is also the Princess Pearl Cotton seal and a note: See that the “Princess” head is on the label of each ball.
This reminded me of my Faber-Castell ruler. On the packaging it mentions the original Faber-Castell emossed logo on the plastic ruler.
I suppose these were intended to protect the buyer from cheap immitations. Surely, cheap MEGA yarn (PhP10.75 each) seem to be no longer available at the National Book Store. What they have now is the Familia brand which costs 5 pesos more. Well, MEGA is cheap because the quality is not very high: colors are not very consistent and the yarn thickness not very uniform. However, it is good enough for simple craft projects or crochet exercises (I used them for a halter top, a skirt and two purses).
Anyway, I should have a photo of the finished Princess Louise crocheted bag on Edward’s CnC soon, together with the pattern, the pattern improvisations and other notes. 
The current project is how to make a work bag out of a pattern for an insertion.
