Weldon's Fifth Series - Useful Edgings and Insertions

This week's series is full of useful edgings and insertions. They have numbered them so it's easy to see that there are 46 of them. They range from highly detailed to much more simple edgings. This week I'm sharing a sampling of them. The series starts out with this one called a Mussel-Shell Border. Like many of them it starts by saying "begin with a foundation of chain the length required". This looks like you would need a multiple of something and they don't mention what that might be. This particular edging is 12 rows.

Some of the edgings have you start with 'mignardese braid'. This seems to refer to a braided edging that you can buy. Both No 4 and No 5 below start with some kind of fancy braid and then work into it to. This seems like an excellent way to avoid making a foundation row if that's something you don't enjoy.
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No. 6, Spider-Web Edging, is described as a "strong, pretty edging for underlinen".  

The Jubilee border below is done sideways or "the short way". They add the last bit of edging at the end. The Waterfall Border looks pretty but it seems a little more complicated.

The middle of the series has two pages of illustrations of the different edgings. Here's one page of them. This one includes a fancy fringe for a quilt or a toilet cover (bottom right).

​These seem a little simpler and most are done with a braid to start.

I wasn't sure I wanted to try one of the edgings because I didn't have anything to use it for at the moment but I did end up picking one and doing a small sample of it for next week. It is called Polo Edging and I'll have that next week!