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Bernhard Ulmann Company
A historic American needlecraft publisher, this company is best remembered for vintage knitting, crochet, and craft booklets that helped bring handmade fashion and home projects to a wide audience. Its name also lives on through Bucilla, a brand long associated with yarn, embroidery, and heirloom-style kits.
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Cro-knitting : The new art of worsted work : also crocheted lattice work
by Bernhard Ulmann Company
About the author
Bernhard Ulmann Company was a New York–based craft and textile business that grew out of Bernhard Ulmann’s work in the late 19th century. Company history published by Bucilla says the business began in 1867, first selling decorative household linens and later expanding into a larger retail and wholesale operation.
Over time, the company became closely linked with knitting, crochet, embroidery, and other needlework publications. Surviving pattern books and library records show Bernhard Ulmann Company as the credited creator or publisher of vintage instructional works, including knitting and crochet manuals that were meant to be practical, approachable, and useful for everyday makers.
For readers and crafters today, the company is interesting not as a single modern-day authorial voice, but as part of the history of American home crafts. Its publications capture a period when pattern booklets were an important way people learned new techniques, made clothing by hand, and followed changing styles from season to season.