Smoking Cap Pattern

This needlework pattern for a gentleman's smoking cap was provided in the February 1872 issue of the Victorian woman's magazine, Peterson's Magazine. It is to be worked in "appliqué and braid." The magazine suggested brown and green cloth, or brown and green cashmere.

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