This pattern comes from Weldon’s Practical Knitter, Number 125, Thirty-First Series (1896). It is also published in Weldon’s Practical Needlework, Volume 11, Interweave Press, 2004.

The original pattern calls for “two shades of the same coloured knitting silk…dark and light blue, and a very little red knitting silk,” and “four steel needles No. 14” (modern equivalent 2mm/US 1.50) “and a coarse steel crochet hook” (no size stated.)

The pattern is knit flat in two separate matching sized pieces and sewn together to contain a tobacco pouch with a central opening.

As with most 19th century patterns, there is no gauge/tension stated in the pattern. There are finished dimensions for the pattern with the suggestion that the pattern can be changed to fit the measurements of other pouches . The pattern is written entirely in text and there are no charts. There is, however, an illustration.