---
slug: supposable-errors
passed: 2026-11-15
by: "a claims-pass subagent of claude-gifted-feynman-9l8x0d, before publishing, on the working tree at 8b52a2a9 (unchanged for this layer at 9341318f, which touches only public/search/); every one of the 243 entries of assay/sources/supposable-errors.json plus 4 claims it leaves out, one agent on oversight/claims-pass.md"
checked: 247
confirmed: 226
wrong: 2
unverifiable: 0
observed: 19
stale: 0
---
The confirmed count, 226, is 214 CONFIRMED lines and 12 lines marked MINOR: near-misses, which the findings below cover, all fixed before publishing.

Not yet published: https://artwaste.land/strata/supposable-errors/ and https://artwaste.land/checks/verify-supposable-errors.mjs both answer 404 (expected). The verifier copied into an empty directory tries to download index.html, data.json and engine.mjs and stops at "HTTP 404" (exit 1, expected before publishing). Reader check simulated on copies of the three files with AW_DIR: `node verify-supposable-errors.mjs --mutate` exit 0, "13 of 13 planted faults caught", 6712 passed, 0 failed. In the repository: `node verify-supposable-errors.mjs --mutate` exit 0, 7252 passed, 0 failed; `node verify-supposable-errors.mjs --online` exit 1, 7240 passed, 1 failed ("F: the book text Gutenberg serves now is the kept copy's", finding 3). build-page.mjs, build-data.mjs and split-1843.mjs --check: all current. `node assay/sources.mjs supposable-errors --online`: 36 FOUND, 2 PARTIAL, 1 UNREADABLE (a PDF, read here by hand), 83 in the repository, 121 NOT FOUND; every NOT FOUND is a gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 or archive.org/details/ landing page that holds none of the book's text (positive control: none of them contains "Leaf and Trellis" or "supposable"), so each of those excerpts was checked in the full texts instead: archive.org's live _djvu.txt (byte-identical to the kept OCR copies) and Gutenberg's live text and 33502-8.txt. Page images were not viewed; the OCR and the catalogues settled every transcription. One User-Agent for this pass's own fetches: ArtWasteLand-Reference/1.0 (scripts/robots-policy.mjs REFERENCE_UA); robots-policy run before each URL not in FETCH-LOG.tsv; thread-forward.com, knitty.com and oxforddnb.com refused and not fetched; the Shetland PDFs (reference tier) read once and not kept.

## Claims
- CONFIRMED | [dek-1847-preface] In 1847 Miss Lambert asked the ladies using her knitting books for corrections, though not anonymous ones, nor any “such as relate to supposable errors arising from misunderstanding on the part of the Knitter.” | https://archive.org/details/krl00394036 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00394036/krl00394036_djvu.txt); https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/58180/pg58180.txt | OCR, p. IV: "she cannot, however, attend to anonymous communica- tions, or to such as relate to supposable errors arising from misunderstanding on the part of the Knitter."; PG #58180 the same words; the asking for corrections is in the sentence before
- MINOR | [kicker] One knitting book, 1843: every receipt knitted by a program, every stitch counted | public/strata/supposable-errors/data.json | data.json: 79 of 80 receipts counted, 5 of them only in part (recounted: Another Pair of Muffatees, A Brioche, A Sontag, Chevron Pattern, A Pence Jug), 1 with no knitting; "every stitch counted" overstates what the page itself says in The whole book (finding 4)
- MINOR | [dek-knitted-by-program] The Artificial Wasteland knitted every receipt in her 1843 My Knitting Book by program, reading her words by her own printed glossary and counting every stitch. | research/supposable-errors/README.md | the README says it, but data.json counts five receipts only in part (the Brioche's conical stripe, the Sontag's 42 shaping rows and the Pence Jug's bottom are not knitted), so "counting every stitch" overstates; "every receipt" is fair, qualified by the next sentence (finding 4)
- CONFIRMED | [dek-counts] Of the 79 it could count, 40 work however they are read and 11 fail however they are read; the other 28 turn on how one of her phrases is taken. | verify-supposable-errors.mjs | recreated in the repository: node verify-supposable-errors.mjs --mutate, exit 0, 7252 passed, 0 failed, 13 of 13 plants caught; on AW_DIR copies of the three served files, 6712 passed; data.json ranges: sound 40, depends 28, faulty 11, unchecked 1 (80); 40 + 11 + 28 = 79; the page's own table has the same 40 / 28 / 11 / 1
- CONFIRMED | [dek-lt-1844] In 1844 her seventh edition printed new endings for exactly the five Leaf and Trellis rows the program finds stranded in the first. | verify-supposable-errors.mjs; https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt | redone by hand at 40 stitches: rows 8 and 14 end one stitch short at "knit two together", rows 10 (-1), 16 (+1) and 18 (+1) stop partway; the 1844 OCR prints "Finish with ..." after exactly rows 8, 10, 14, 16 and 18; verifier green
- CONFIRMED | [plain-twelfth-edition] In 1843 Miss Lambert published a knitting book that had reached its twelfth edition by 1845. | https://archive.org/details/krl00376340 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00376340/krl00376340_djvu.txt) | OCR title page "TWELFTH EDITION,"; archive.org metadata date 1845 (fetched 2026-11-15); the Online Books Page lists "12th edition; London: J. Murray, 1845"; the 1843 title page reads 1843
- CONFIRMED | [preface-1847-paragraph] Since the publication of the first edition of the present series, the whole of the examples have been carefully reworked, and the faults of the first impressions have been corrected; yet, it is not to be wondered at, in a work of this de... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/58180/pg58180.txt | found word for word in PG #58180 (fetched 2026-11-15) and, with OCR slips ("faidts", "communica- tions"), in the live 1847 OCR
- CONFIRMED | [preface-1847-address] 3, New Burlington Street, Regent Street. | https://archive.org/details/krl00394036 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00394036/krl00394036_djvu.txt) | OCR: "3, New Burlington Street, Regent Street." under the preface
- CONFIRMED | [preface-1847-caption] Miss Lambert, My Knitting Book, Second Series (John Murray, 1847), page iv, transcribed from the University of Southampton’s copy (archive.org, krl00394036). | https://archive.org/metadata/krl00394036 | metadata fetched 2026-11-15: contributor University of Southampton, date 1847, publisher London : John Murray, description "Second series."; the OCR prints "IV" over the paragraph
- CONFIRMED | [right-on-both-counts] She was right on both counts: errors do creep into her receipts, and a good many of her sentences can be taken more than one way, so that a knitter who found a fault might only have misread. | public/strata/supposable-errors/data.json | data.json: 11 receipts faulty, 28 depends; the rest of the sentence is the page's argument
- CONFIRMED | [reads-with-glossary] It reads her receipts with her own printed glossary and no habits of its own, knits each one stitch by stitch, and counts. | research/supposable-errors/README.md | the repository file says it; recreated in the repository: node verify-supposable-errors.mjs --mutate, exit 0, 7252 passed, 0 failed, 13 of 13 plants caught; on AW_DIR copies of the three served files, 6712 passed
- CONFIRMED | [bench-map] The program knits it from her printed words, a row at a time, and draws every stitch joined to the stitches it was worked into. | public/strata/supposable-errors/map.mjs | map.mjs: "Every stitch is a point; it is joined by a line to each stitch it was worked into"
- MINOR | [bench-legend] A ring is a loop brought forward, and the hole it leaves. A shaded row is one whose words and stitches part; a red cross is a stitch the words never reached, knitted plain so the count can go on. Where a later edition changed the receipt... | public/strata/supposable-errors/app.mjs | rings, red crosses and shading are drawn as said (app.mjs), but the year buttons come only from data.json variants (the Long Sleeves 1845, the Leaf and Trellis 1844, the Rose-leaf 1845) while 30 receipts carry later changes, so for 27 changed receipts no year appears (finding 13)
- CONFIRMED | [heading-greatest-care] Selected with the greatest care | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [mkb-imprint] My Knitting Book came out at the end of 1843 (its preface is dated November) from John Murray of Albemarle Street, at eighteen pence, | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | Gutenberg title page: "LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1843. PRICE EIGHTEEN PENCE." (live text, 2026-11-15)
- CONFIRMED | [mkb-november] came out at the end of 1843 (its preface is dated November) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | the preface ends "3, New Burlington Street, November 1843."; "came out at the end of 1843" is a fair reading of the date
- CONFIRMED | [mkb-authoress] the work of the Miss Lambert who had published The Hand-Book of Needlework before it. | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [preface-1843-care] Its preface promised that the examples have been selected with the greatest care,—many are original,—and the whole are so arranged as to render them comprehensible even to a novice in the art, | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [preface-1843-type] and explained the size of the type: knitting was so often sought, as an evening amusement, both by the aged and by invalids. | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- MINOR | [preface-1843-piracy] It also explained the price. The Hand-Book had been pirated, and from the low price at which it is fixed, nothing, but a very extended circulation, can ensure her from loss. | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | the quoted words are right, but the preface ties the piracies to publishing "this little volume" and says only that at its low price a very extended circulation is needed; it does not explain the price (the record's note concedes the reading) (finding 11)
- CONFIRMED | [seventh-edition-1844] The copy at the University of Southampton dated 1844 calls itself the seventh edition; | https://archive.org/details/krl00394035 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) | the OCR misses the title page; independently, the Online Books Page lists "My Knitting Book (7th edition; London: J. Murray, 1844)" linked to Southampton's PDF 00394035, Kentfield 2020 lists "My Knitting Book, 7th edn (London, 1844)" under Southampton, and the metadata date is 1844
- CONFIRMED | [twelfth-edition-1845] the one dated 1845, the twelfth. | https://archive.org/details/krl00376340 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00376340/krl00376340_djvu.txt) | OCR "TWELFTH EDITION,"; metadata date 1845; Online Books Page "12th edition; London: J. Murray, 1845"
- CONFIRMED | [twenty-third-thousand] The Second Series of 1847, whose preface is above, is marked on its title page Twenty-third thousand. | https://archive.org/details/krl00394036 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00394036/krl00394036_djvu.txt) | OCR "TWENTY-THIRD THOUSAND."; PG #58180 the same
- CONFIRMED | [some-few-handbook] The first series’ own preface says that Some few of the examples have been selected from the chapter on knitting in the Hand-Book; | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- OBSERVED | [eighteen-in-handbook] at least eighteen had appeared there, the Brioche among them in a different form, but none of the twelve patterns for d’oyleys. | recreated: grep of the 1842 Hand-Book OCR (https://ia800805.us.archive.org/26/items/krl00402951/krl00402951_djvu.txt, refetched 2026-11-15, identical to the kept copy) for the 17 headings in FINDINGS.md section 7 gives 17, plus "A brioche*" | the d'oyley clause is no-doyleys-1842 (WRONG). "At least eighteen" is true as a lower bound; comparing texts adds the German Pattern (as PATTERN FOR A CHAIR TIDY, OR D'OYLEY), KNITTED FRINGE and VANDYKE BORDER, and in other forms LONG SLEEVES TO WEAR UNDER THE DRESS and COVER FOR AN AIR CUSHION (finding 1)
- CONFIRMED | [brioche-1842] the Brioche among them in a different form, | https://ia800805.us.archive.org/26/items/krl00402951/krl00402951_djvu.txt | 1842 "with, ivory or wooden pins, No. 19." and "knit two stitches, and turn"; 1843 "No. 8." and "bring the wool forward, knit two together, twice, and turn": a different form
- WRONG | [no-doyleys-1842] but none of the twelve patterns for d’oyleys. | https://ia800805.us.archive.org/26/items/krl00402951/krl00402951_djvu.txt (1842 Hand-Book, pp. 285-287; kept as research/supposable-errors/sources/scholarship/archive.org_download_krl00402951_krl00402951_djvu.txt) | "PATTERN FOR A CHAIR TIDY, OR D'OYLEY. Cast on one hundred and sixty-eight stitches. This will form the foundation, on which the pattern is to be repeated eight times." then prints, row for row (wool for thread, "draw" for "pass the slip-stitch"), the twelve rows of d'oyley X, the German Pattern ("Cast on twenty-one stitches for each pattern"; 8 x 21 = 168). The record's title search could not see a renamed receipt, and its note says the text was not compared (finding 1)
- OBSERVED | [reset-again] By the seventh edition the book had been reset, | research/supposable-errors/impressions/CHECKED.md | CHECKED.md; recreated in part: in the 1844 OCR the Leaf and Trellis follows running head 37 (1843: 36) and Other Patterns for Shawls cites pages 37, 43, 44, 48 (1843: 36, 42, 44, 47)
- OBSERVED | [three-copies] the three copies compared here (the first edition, the seventh and the twelfth) show what she changed. | research/supposable-errors/sources/editions.md | editions.md: the 1843 copy has no edition statement and a November 1843 preface; taken as the first edition, a fair inference
- CONFIRMED | [frances-lambert] Miss Lambert was Frances Lambert, | https://knittinghistory.co.uk/richard-rutt-and-frances-lambert/ | Kentfield 2022 note 9: "Frances Lambert, My Knitting Book (London: John Murray, 1843)"; the ODNB title at Crossref: "Lambert [married name Sedgwick], Frances (1798-1880)"
- CONFIRMED | [married-sedgwick-1836] and had been Mrs Sedgwick since 1836, when she married John Bell Sedgwick; | https://marvellousmechanicalyarn.blogspot.com/2020/08/updated-biography-for-france-lambert.html | Kentfield 2020: "On 30 April 1836 Frances Lambert marries John Bell Sedgwick"
- CONFIRMED | [kept-own-name] she kept her own name for her work | https://ia800805.us.archive.org/26/items/krl00402951/krl00402951_djvu.txt | 1842 Hand-Book preface (OCR refetched 2026-11-15): "his permission in allowing my maiden name to appear on the title-page, as being that by which I am more generally recognised in my avocation."
- CONFIRMED | [signed-fs] and signed the preface of her Hand-Book F.S. | https://ia800805.us.archive.org/26/items/krl00402951/krl00402951_djvu.txt | 1842 OCR: "F. S." above "New Burlington Street, March 1842."; Kentfield 2020: "Frances signed the preface of her books "F.S." for "Frances Sedgwick""
- CONFIRMED | [royal-warrant-1837] She was appointed embroideress to the Queen in 1837, | https://marvellousmechanicalyarn.blogspot.com/2020/08/updated-biography-for-france-lambert.html | Kentfield 2020: "In 1837 Frances is awarded a Royal Warrant for 'embroideress in general and fancy needle work woman in ordinary to her majesty'" (Kentfield 2022 note 14: LC 13/2, 1837)
- CONFIRMED | [burlington-from-1840] and from 1840 kept a needlework business at 3 New Burlington Street, the address under the preface above, | https://marvellousmechanicalyarn.blogspot.com/2020/08/updated-biography-for-france-lambert.html | Kentfield 2020: "relocates two streets south to 3 New Burlington Street in 1840"; Kentfield 2022: the 1841 and 1843 directories give 3 New Burlington Street
- CONFIRMED | [gave-up-1847] until she gave it up in 1847. | https://marvellousmechanicalyarn.blogspot.com/2020/08/updated-biography-for-france-lambert.html | Kentfield 2020: "In 1847 Frances publishes Practical Hints on Decorative Needlework and closes the business premises in New Burlington Street."
- CONFIRMED | [rutt-we-know-no-more] Richard Rutt’s history of hand knitting (1987) ended its half page on her with We know no more. | https://marvellousmechanicalyarn.blogspot.com/2020/08/updated-biography-for-france-lambert.html | second-hand (Rutt's book was not reachable): Kentfield 2020 "finished the half-page section with a direct quote from Potter (un-cited by Rutt) appending 'We know no more.'"; Kentfield 2022 "Rutt ends the section with 'we know no more'" (her note 3: Rutt, p. 113)
- CONFIRMED | [rutt-1987] Richard Rutt’s history of hand knitting (1987) | https://knittinghistory.co.uk/richard-rutt-and-frances-lambert/ | Kentfield 2022 note 1: "Richard Rutt, A History of Hand Knitting (London: Batsford, 1987)"
- CONFIRMED | [kentfield-odnb] Much of what is now known comes from Sally Kentfield’s research, which contributed to Lynn Hulse’s entry for her in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2024). | https://marvellousmechanicalyarn.blogspot.com/p/about.html | her About page: "My History MA dissertation research contributed to the published Oxford Dictionary of National Biography biography of Frances Lambert"; Kentfield 2022: "now we know considerably more"; the ODNB text itself is walled (oxforddnb.com robots refused, 2026-11-15)
- CONFIRMED | [hulse-odnb-2024] Lynn Hulse’s entry for her in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2024). | https://api.crossref.org/works/10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.90000382473 | Crossref fetched live 2026-11-15: author Lynn Hulse, title "Lambert [married name Sedgwick], Frances (1798-1880), embroiderer, fancy needleworker, and author", published 2024-07-11, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- CONFIRMED | [filiere-order] After its twenty definitions, an Explanation of Terms used in Knitting, the book prints an engraving of her Standard Filière, a gauge for sizing needles, | research/supposable-errors/sources/texts/pg33502-1843-first-series.txt | contents: "EXPLANATION OF TERMS USED IN KNITTING 9 / THE STANDARD FILIERE 12"; the text runs glossary, N.B., engraving
- CONFIRMED | [filiere-general-use] a gauge for sizing needles, which it calls an instrument invented some time since by the authoress, and now in general use, | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- MINOR | [filiere-sizes] and every needle in it is sized on that gauge. | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | the N.B. says "The sizes of the needles are given according to the Standard Filiere", but the book gives some needles in inches: A Baby's Hood "two, each one inch in circumference", A Frileuse "Needles, one inch and three quarters in circumference" (finding 7)
- CONFIRMED | [other-writers] Other writers did not use her numbers. | https://loopholes.blog/2020/09/lambert-gauge/ | Karp: "Her colleagues were comfortable indicating the sizes of knitting needles ... with the SWG" and Lambert's numbers are "an obvious general exception"
- CONFIRMED | [hope-1848] In 1848 George Hope, who had designed a gauge of his own on the wire gauge, could call his a correct measure for the numbers used in every publication, except those of Miss Lambert, | https://loopholes.blog/2020/09/lambert-gauge/ | Karp, word for word; the Cornucopia Gauge advertisement as quoted by Barbara (kept) has "This gauge is a a correct measure..., according to the numbers used in every publication on knitting, except those of Mrs. Lambert", so "his" gauge is right
- CONFIRMED | [karp-no-sign] and Cary Karp, who has told the story, finds no sign that hers changed how needles were made. | https://loopholes.blog/2020/09/lambert-gauge/ | Karp: "There is no evidence of her work having influenced manufacturers' practice"
- CONFIRMED | [glossary-twenty] After its twenty definitions, an Explanation of Terms used in Knitting, | verify-supposable-errors.mjs | recounted: the Gutenberg Explanation of Terms has 20 italic terms, from "To cast on" to "Pearl, seam, and rib-stitch"
- CONFIRMED | [glossary-title] After its twenty definitions, an Explanation of Terms used in Knitting, | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [program-starts] The definitions are where the program starts. | research/supposable-errors/README.md | the repository file says it; recreated in the repository: node verify-supposable-errors.mjs --mutate, exit 0, 7252 passed, 0 failed, 13 of 13 plants caught; on AW_DIR copies of the three served files, 6712 passed
- CONFIRMED | [gl-narrow] To narrow. To lessen, by knitting two stitches together. | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [gl-thread-forward] To bring the thread forward. To bring the cotton forward so as to make an open stitch. | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [gl-seam] To seam. To knit a stitch with the cotton before the needle. | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [gl-pearl-seam-rib] Pearl, seam, and rib-stitch, All signify the same. | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [gl-slip] To slip or pass a stitch. To change it from one needle to the other without knitting it. | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [gl-turn] A turn. Two rows in the same stitch, backwards and forwards. | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [gl-round] A round. A row, when the stitches are on two, three, or more needles. | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [gl-operations] Each of her terms becomes an operation that takes stitches off one needle and puts stitches on the other: | verify-supposable-errors.mjs | the verifier's PAIR table (k [1,1], yo [0,1], k2tog [2,1] ...), independent of engine.mjs, which it holds row by row
- CONFIRMED | [gl-also-cast-over] Also to cast over, to turn over, to widen. | research/supposable-errors/READING.md | READING.md maps them to yo; the glossary: "To cast over.--To bring the cotton forward round the needle", "To turn over.--To bring the wool forward over the needle", "To widen.--To increase by making a stitch"
- CONFIRMED | [model-in-order] It works her words in order from one needle to the other, and a row is over when the stitches are. | research/supposable-errors/README.md | the repository file says it; recreated in the repository: node verify-supposable-errors.mjs --mutate, exit 0, 7252 passed, 0 failed, 13 of 13 plants caught; on AW_DIR copies of the three served files, 6712 passed
- CONFIRMED | [model-repeat] goes on as far as the stitches go and stops wherever they run out, because the print says nothing else; words printed after the repeat get the room they ask for. It assumes no edge stitch, no habit, no tidy end. | research/supposable-errors/README.md | the repository file says it; recreated in the repository: node verify-supposable-errors.mjs --mutate, exit 0, 7252 passed, 0 failed, 13 of 13 plants caught; on AW_DIR copies of the three served files, 6712 passed
- CONFIRMED | [model-repeat-quote] A repeat (Repeat from (a)) goes on as far as the stitches go | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [model-four-ways] So every row it knits ends in one of four ways: | research/supposable-errors/README.md | the repository file says it; recreated in the repository: node verify-supposable-errors.mjs --mutate, exit 0, 7252 passed, 0 failed, 13 of 13 plants caught; on AW_DIR copies of the three served files, 6712 passed
- CONFIRMED | [model-k2tog-quote] the stitches run out in the middle of an operation (one stitch left where she says knit two together), or the words end with stitches still on the needle. | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [model-plain-finish] The last two leave the knitter something to decide, and the print does not say what. There the program knits whatever is left plain, a choice of its own that the page always shows, and counts on. | research/supposable-errors/README.md | the repository file says it; recreated in the repository: node verify-supposable-errors.mjs --mutate, exit 0, 7252 passed, 0 failed, 13 of 13 plants caught; on AW_DIR copies of the three served files, 6712 passed
- CONFIRMED | [model-verdicts] That gives each receipt one of four verdicts: it works as printed; it works if the knitter finishes some rows by sense (knitting what is left plain keeps every count); its count drifts (a pattern meant to keep its number of stitches does... | research/supposable-errors/README.md | the repository file says it; recreated in the repository: node verify-supposable-errors.mjs --mutate, exit 0, 7252 passed, 0 failed, 13 of 13 plants caught; on AW_DIR copies of the three served files, 6712 passed
- CONFIRMED | [model-uncounted] A receipt with nothing a program can count is left uncounted, with the reason. | research/supposable-errors/README.md | the repository file says it; recreated in the repository: node verify-supposable-errors.mjs --mutate, exit 0, 7252 passed, 0 failed, 13 of 13 plants caught; on AW_DIR copies of the three served files, 6712 passed
- CONFIRMED | [model-row-by-row] A receipt meant to keep its count is also knitted one row at a time, each row on the stitches the rows before it leave when they work: her own number where she prints one, and the cast-on number again after a row that strands the knitter. | research/supposable-errors/README.md | the repository file says it; recreated in the repository: node verify-supposable-errors.mjs --mutate, exit 0, 7252 passed, 0 failed, 13 of 13 plants caught; on AW_DIR copies of the three served files, 6712 passed
- CONFIRMED | [model-never-blamed] So a row that only inherits a wrong count is never blamed for it, and a row written for the stitches an edging has just gained is knitted on them. | verify-supposable-errors.mjs | the repository file says it; recreated in the repository: node verify-supposable-errors.mjs --mutate, exit 0, 7252 passed, 0 failed, 13 of 13 plants caught; on AW_DIR copies of the three served files, 6712 passed
- CONFIRMED | [heading-first-impressions] The faults of the first impressions | https://archive.org/details/krl00394036 (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/58180/pg58180.txt) | PG #58180 and the 1847 OCR ("faidts"): "the faults of the first impressions have been corrected"
- CONFIRMED | [lt-first-doyley] Take the first of her twelve patterns for d’oyleys, the Leaf and Trellis. | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [lt-row-starts] so the plain stitches a row opens with go up by one from row to row (knit five, knit six, knit seven, as far as knit nine) and then come down again, | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [lt-row-starts-down] and then come down again, and the repeat from its letter runs off the far end of the row wherever the stitches stop. | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [lt-costs-nothing] In the second, fourth and sixth rows that costs nothing: the words run out among plain stitches. | public/strata/supposable-errors/data.json | redone by hand at 40: row 2 stops inside "knit ten", row 4 inside "knit five", row 6 after "knit three", each with no change of count
- CONFIRMED | [lt-own-list] In the eighth, tenth, fourteenth, sixteenth and eighteenth rows it does. | verify-supposable-errors.mjs | redone by hand; verifier green
- CONFIRMED | [lt-how] In the eighth and the fourteenth, one stitch is left where she says knit two together; in the tenth, sixteenth and eighteenth the last repeat stops after a decrease whose loop never comes, or after a loop brought forward whose decrease n... | public/strata/supposable-errors/data.json | redone by hand at 40: rows 8 and 14 have one stitch left at "knit two together"; row 10 stops after the double decrease with its second loop to come (-1); rows 16 and 18 stop after a loop whose decrease never comes (+1 each)
- CONFIRMED | [lt-how-quote] In the eighth and the fourteenth, one stitch is left where she says knit two together; | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [lt-40-43] Knitted plain where the words stop, one pass of the pattern takes the count from 40 to 43. | verify-supposable-errors.mjs | redone by hand: 40, row 10 to 39, row 12 to 40, row 14 to 41, row 16 to 42, row 18 to 43; later passes return to 43 (data.json cycles 40 43 43 43)
- OBSERVED | [lt-nowhere-else] The seventh edition of 1844 prints new words after each of exactly those five rows, and nowhere else in the pattern: | recreated: a word diff of the Leaf and Trellis in the live 1843 and 1844 OCR (myknittingbook00lambgoog, krl00394035) | the only insertions are the five "Finish with" endings; the rest is OCR noise. CHECKED.md says the same
- CONFIRMED | [lt-1844-eighth] “Finish with two plain stitches” | https://archive.org/details/krl00394035 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) | transcription matches the live OCR (https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) at 100% of its five-word runs, the rest OCR noise; it says what the page quotes
- CONFIRMED | [lt-1844-tenth] “Finish with—slip one; knit two, pass the slipped stitch over them” | https://archive.org/details/krl00394035 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) | transcription matches the live OCR (https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) at 100% of its five-word runs, the rest OCR noise; it says what the page quotes
- CONFIRMED | [lt-1844-fourteenth] “Finish with—bring the wool forward, knit one; knit two together” | https://archive.org/details/krl00394035 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) | transcription matches the live OCR (https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) at 100% of its five-word runs, the rest OCR noise; it says what the page quotes
- CONFIRMED | [lt-1844-sixteenth] “Finish with—two plain stitches, without bringing the wool forward” | https://archive.org/details/krl00394035 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) | transcription matches the live OCR (https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) at 100% of its five-word runs, the rest OCR noise; it says what the page quotes
- CONFIRMED | [lt-1844-eighteenth] “Finish with—bring the wool forward, knit eight” | https://archive.org/details/krl00394035 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) | transcription matches the live OCR (https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) at 100% of its five-word runs, the rest OCR noise; it says what the page quotes
- CONFIRMED | [lt-1844-forty] Knitted with them, every row ends where its stitches do and the count stays at 40. | verify-supposable-errors.mjs | redone by hand: with the 1844 endings rows 8, 10, 14, 16 and 18 end with their words at 40 and leave 40
- MINOR | [lt-who-found] Between the first edition and the seventh, she, or a knitter who wrote to her, found the same rows the program finds, reading the first edition alone. The book does not say which. | research/supposable-errors/sources/editions.md | editions.md says only that the change came in one of editions two to seven; nothing kept says who found the rows, and the record's own note names a reader at the printer's or the publisher's as possible; "she, or a knitter who wrote to her" gives two guesses as the only ones (finding 6)
- CONFIRMED | [rl-1845-all-eight] The twelfth edition of 1845 did the same for the pattern after it, the Rose-leaf, to all eight of its rows, though there the first edition had not left the ends of the rows to chance. | verify-supposable-errors.mjs | the 1845 OCR has a "Finish with" on each of the eight rows of the Rose-leaf; the 1844 OCR has none there
- CONFIRMED | [rl-nb] It closed with an N.B.: The termination of each row must be exactly the same (reversed) as the commencement. | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [rl-reading] If it is only the words printed before the repeat’s letter, the fourth and eighth rows end a loop short of their own beginnings and the count drifts; if it takes in the loop that opens the repeat, every row ends where its stitches do. So... | public/strata/supposable-errors/data.json | data.json; redone by hand at 43 for the fourth row: without the loop the termination "pearl two together; knit one" loses a stitch, with it ("turn the thread round the needle, pearl two together; knit one", as 1845 prints) the count holds
- CONFIRMED | [rl-forty-three] on the forty-three stitches she prints or on any number her rule allows | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [rl-1845-settles] Her endings of 1845 settle it the second way. Knitted with them, on the forty-three stitches she prints or on any number her rule allows from 23 to 103, the pattern is stitch for stitch what the program knits under that reading, | verify-supposable-errors.mjs | recreated in the repository: node verify-supposable-errors.mjs --mutate, exit 0, 7252 passed, 0 failed, 13 of 13 plants caught; on AW_DIR copies of the three served files, 6712 passed; the verifier works both at 23, 33, ... 103
- CONFIRMED | [rl-exactly] and the N.B. no longer says exactly. | https://archive.org/details/krl00376340 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00376340/krl00376340_djvu.txt) | 1845 OCR: "N.B. The termination of each row must be the same (reversed) as the commencement."; 1843 and 1844 OCR: "exactly the same (reversed)"
- MINOR | [ls-1843] The same edition changed one clause of the Long Sleeves to wear under the Dress. In 1843 the thirty-five turns of the sleeve are knitted increasing one stitch at the beginning and end of each turn; | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | the quotation is right, but the same edition also changed the receipt's materials ("six-thread embroidery fleecy" to "three-thread fleecy", live 1845 OCR), as the page's own table shows, so "changed one clause" undercounts (finding 8)
- CONFIRMED | [ls-1845] in 1845, at the beginning and end of the first row of each turn. | https://archive.org/details/krl00376340 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00376340/krl00376340_djvu.txt) | 1845 OCR: "Knit thirty -five turns plain, -- increasing one stitch at the beginning and end of the first row of each turn."
- CONFIRMED | [ls-turn] A turn is two rows, there and back, so a turn begins and ends at the same edge, | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | glossary: "A turn.--Two rows in the same stitch, backwards and forwards."; the edge argument follows
- CONFIRMED | [ls-same-count] The number of stitches is the same either way, so the program, which counts, finds nothing to choose between them. | public/strata/supposable-errors/data.json | the repository file says it; recreated in the repository: node verify-supposable-errors.mjs --mutate, exit 0, 7252 passed, 0 failed, 13 of 13 plants caught; on AW_DIR copies of the three served files, 6712 passed
- OBSERVED | [ls-all-changes] These are all the changes she made to the knitting itself, as the two later copies print them: | research/supposable-errors/impressions/CHECKED.md | CHECKED.md; recreated from changes.json: the entries of kind "correction" are the Leaf and Trellis (5 rows), the Rose-leaf (8 rows), the Long Sleeves (2) and the Wheel pattern's materials (1), the 16 rows of the table
- CONFIRMED | [tbl-changes] Knit thirty-five turns plain,—increasing one stitch at the beginning and end of the first row of each turn. | research/supposable-errors/impressions/changes.json | node research/supposable-errors/build-page.mjs --check: "index.html is current"; each row's words matched against the live OCR in the chg-* lines
- OBSERVED | [wording-counts] Read on the page images, 23 receipts are printed differently in some way in the seventh edition and 29 in the twelfth, | recreated: receipts in research/supposable-errors/impressions/changes.json whose 1844 or 1845 words differ from 1843 | 23 and 29, as CHECKED.md and the page say
- OBSERVED | [wording-no-stitch] and except for those above the differences change no stitch: | research/supposable-errors/impressions/CHECKED.md | the record describes the observation
- CONFIRMED | [ribbon-riband] ribbon becomes riband, | https://archive.org/details/krl00394035 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) | live OCR: "ribbon" 7 times in 1843, 0 in 1844; "riband" 0 in 1843, 7 in 1844
- CONFIRMED | [commence-round] three bags worked in rounds are told to Commence again, as at first round where the first edition said row, | https://archive.org/details/krl00394035 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) | live OCR: "Commence again, as at first round" twice in 1843, five times in 1844 and in 1845
- OBSERVED | [word-mended] a word is mended here and there. | research/supposable-errors/impressions/CHECKED.md | the record describes the observation
- OBSERVED | [misprints-four] The seventh edition also brought in four misprints of its own, all gone again from the twelfth, | research/supposable-errors/impressions/CHECKED.md; recreated: changes.json typos present in 1844 and gone in 1845 | four (sixteeen, back stitches, "it or may", twenty-row rows); each confirmed in the live OCR as 1844 only
- CONFIRMED | [back-stitches] among them the two back stitches for the Brioche’s black ones | https://archive.org/details/krl00394035 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) | transcription matches the live OCR (https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) at 100% of its five-word runs, the rest OCR noise; it says what the page quotes
- CONFIRMED | [twenty-row-rows] and, in the Baby’s Hood, work twenty-row rows where the first edition says twenty-two. | https://archive.org/details/krl00394035 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) | transcription matches the live OCR (https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) at 100% of its five-word runs, the rest OCR noise; it says what the page quotes
- CONFIRMED | [preface-1845-sentence] And the twelfth edition’s preface gained a sentence: none but those who have tried the experiment know how difficult it is to be accurate in a work of this kind. | https://archive.org/details/krl00376340 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00376340/krl00376340_djvu.txt) | live 1845 OCR has it; the 1843 and 1844 OCR do not
- CONFIRMED | [faulty-mended] Of the 11 receipts that fail however they are read, she mended one, the Leaf and Trellis. | verify-supposable-errors.mjs | the repository file says it; recreated in the repository: node verify-supposable-errors.mjs --mutate, exit 0, 7252 passed, 0 failed, 13 of 13 plants caught; on AW_DIR copies of the three served files, 6712 passed
- CONFIRMED | [faulty-stayed] The other ten keep their faults in the seventh and twelfth editions. | verify-supposable-errors.mjs | CHECKED.md lists the ten as unchanged in their knitting; spot-checked in the live 1844 and 1845 OCR: the Shell Cuffs' "repeat this five times", the Strong Purse's and Another Quilt's "knit two, before the pattern is commenced", the Night-Sock's rows 31 and 32 and "Knit twenty rows"
- CONFIRMED | [pg-2010-transcribers] In 2010, transcribing the book for Project Gutenberg, Constanze Hofmann and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team came to the Double-knitted Night-sock’s | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | release date "August 22, 2010 [EBook #33502]" and "Produced by Constanze Hofmann and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team" (live 33502-8.txt, which now has https://www.pgdp.net); 2010 is the release year, the work itself undated
- CONFIRMED | [night-sock-twenty] came to the Double-knitted Night-sock’s Knit twenty rows, the same as second row, | https://archive.org/details/myknittingbook00lambgoog (OCR: https://archive.org/download/myknittingbook00lambgoog/myknittingbook00lambgoog_djvu.txt) | live Oxford-copy OCR: "Knit twenty rows, the same as second row." (no "nineteen" in it)
- CONFIRMED | [night-sock-fifty-second] saw that twenty rows after the thirty-second cannot bring the knitter to the row she calls the Fifty-second, | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | the reasoning is a fair paraphrase of the note's "needs to be nineteen to fit into pattern": 32 + 20 = 52 rows before the row she calls the Fifty-second
- CONFIRMED | [night-sock-nineteen] printed nineteen, and said so in a note: | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [night-sock-note] “twenty” in original, needs to be nineteen to fit into pattern. | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [night-sock-1844-twenty] The seventh and twelfth editions both print twenty. | https://archive.org/details/krl00394035 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) | live 1844 OCR "Knit twenty rows, the same as second row."
- CONFIRMED | [night-sock-1845-twenty] The seventh and twelfth editions both print twenty. | https://archive.org/details/krl00376340 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00376340/krl00376340_djvu.txt) | live 1845 OCR "Knit twenty rows, the same as second row."
- CONFIRMED | [night-sock-rows] The thirty-first row keeps sixty-two stitches and knits the other twenty-six two together, | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | redone: 88 - 62 = 26 knitted two together make 13; 62 + 13 = 75
- CONFIRMED | [night-sock-quotes] the thirty-second casts off twenty-five stitches, knits thirty-eight, and casts off remaining twenty-five, | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [night-sock-cast-on] numbers that add up to the 88 she cast on, | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [night-sock-counts] which leaves 75 on the needle; the thirty-second casts off twenty-five stitches, knits thirty-eight, and casts off remaining twenty-five, numbers that add up to the 88 she cast on, so the last cast-off finds 12. | verify-supposable-errors.mjs | redone: 25 + 38 + 25 = 88; 75 - 25 - 38 = 12
- CONFIRMED | [night-sock-second-fault] The program counts stitches, not rows, and finds a second fault in the same sock, one row earlier. | public/strata/supposable-errors/data.json | the repository file says it; recreated in the repository: node verify-supposable-errors.mjs --mutate, exit 0, 7252 passed, 0 failed, 13 of 13 plants caught; on AW_DIR copies of the three served files, 6712 passed
- CONFIRMED | [shell-quote] The second round makes a loop before each knitted stitch of the shell, repeat this five times, which, with the loop stitch, will make thirteen from the last pearled stitch. | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [shell-count-right] In the Knitted Cuffs, Shell Pattern, her words and her own count disagree, and the count is right. | public/strata/supposable-errors/data.json | redone by hand: on 100 stitches the second round as printed gives 166 (her words make 160); rounds three to five then need 16 stitches a pattern and leave 104, not 100
- CONFIRMED | [shell-twelve] The words knit six of the shell’s seven stitches and make 12; the three rounds that follow need her thirteen. | verify-supposable-errors.mjs | redone: "bring the silk forward, knit one" once and five times more is six stitches made twelve; the shell has seven
- CONFIRMED | [shell-seventh-stitch] A knitter who trusted the count over the words would knit the seventh stitch and come out right. | public/strata/supposable-errors/data.json | the repository file says it; recreated in the repository: node verify-supposable-errors.mjs --mutate, exit 0, 7252 passed, 0 failed, 13 of 13 plants caught; on AW_DIR copies of the three served files, 6712 passed
- CONFIRMED | [holes-diagonal] A Strong Purse and Another Quilt both shift their holes with knit two, before the pattern is commenced, that the holes may come in a diagonal direction, | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [holes-diagonal-quilt] A Strong Purse and Another Quilt both shift their holes with knit two, before the pattern is commenced, that the holes may come in a diagonal direction, | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [divisible-by-three] on a cast-on she gives as any number divisible by three. | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [wool-forward-slip] After the two, the last repeat has one stitch to work on, and its first words are bring the wool forward, slip one, so the row gains a stitch each time. | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [gains-each-time] After the two, the last repeat has one stitch to work on, | public/strata/supposable-errors/data.json | redone by hand: on 3n stitches "knit two" leaves 3n - 2, the repeats of three leave 1, and "bring the wool forward, slip one" then runs out one stitch up
- CONFIRMED | [sixteenth-ending] Her own seventh edition shows that she knew a knitter would make that loop: the ending she added to the Leaf and Trellis’s sixteenth row is two plain stitches, without bringing the wool forward. | https://archive.org/details/krl00394035 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) | live 1844 OCR; in 1843 the sixteenth row's last repeat ends "bring the thread forward; knit two" at 40, so the inference about the loop is fair
- CONFIRMED | [habit-pence-jug] Franklin Habit translated the Pence Jug for modern knitters in Knitty (Winter 2008), | https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/pence-jug | Ravelry: "Pence Jug by Franklin Habit ... Knitty, Winter 2008", "Translated for the modern knitter from My Knitting Book (1843) by Frances Lambert."
- CONFIRMED | [habit-sampler] and charted five more of the book’s patterns in 2009. | https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/miss-lamberts-lace-sampler | Ravelry: "Knitty, Summer 2009", "Includes five patterns from Frances Lambert's My Knitting Book (1843), translated and charted for the modern knitter."
- MINOR | [sowerby] Jane Sowerby’s Victorian Lace Today (2006) has a large rectangle in the Leaf and Trellis Pattern, credited as an Original lace pattern by Miss Lambert. | https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/large-rectangle-in-leaf-and-trellis-pattern-with-trellis-border | the credit is quoted rightly, but the same record quotes Sowerby: "While perusing Weldon's Practical Knitter, Vol. 1, 1886, I discovered a leaf and trellis pattern ... found it to be Miss Lambert's leaf and trellis extended from a 20 to a 43-stitch repeat", so under "Others have knitted these receipts" her design may not be this book's receipt (finding 9)
- CONFIRMED | [ravelry-knitted-lace] A note on Ravelry says of the Knitted Lace, There appears to be an error in the pattern; | https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/knitted-lace-1894 | Ravelry, "Knitted Lace by Frances Lambert ... Published in My Knitting Book": "There appears to be an error in the pattern; however."
- CONFIRMED | [knitted-lace-program] the program finds its count wrong as printed too, though one reading of its sixth row mends it. | public/strata/supposable-errors/data.json | data.json: as read "stated-wrong" (she states twelve, the rows make thirteen); the sixth-row alternative "works"; range depends
- CONFIRMED | [shetland-project] For a project of the Shetland Museum and Archives and the University of Glasgow, shown in 2016, nearly 140 volunteers knitted Shetland patterns from books of 1840 to 1880, | https://www.shetlandmuseumandarchives.org.uk/education/museum-store/research-projects/authenticity-in-shetland-lace-knitting | the page title read live 2026-11-15: "Authenticity in 'Shetland' Lace Knitting"; "We were contacted by over 450 volunteers, of which nearly 140 people knit nearly 300 samples"; the main panel: "137 knitters"
- CONFIRMED | [shetland-2016] shown in 2016, | https://www.shetlandmuseumandarchives.org.uk/education/museum-store/research-projects/authenticity-in-shetland-lace-knitting | assay/sources.mjs --online found the excerpt at the URL (2026-11-15); read in context, it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [shetland-lambert] Lambert’s among them, from her Hand-Book and her Second Series | https://www.shetlandmuseumandarchives.org.uk/education/museum-store/research-projects/authenticity-in-shetland-lace-knitting | assay/sources.mjs --online found the excerpt at the URL (2026-11-15); read in context, it says what the page says
- MINOR | [shetland-herringbone] (one, the Hand-Book’s Herringbone, or Shetland Stitch for a Purse, shares its title with a receipt in this book), | https://www.shetlandmuseumandarchives.org.uk/site/assets/files/2024/authenticity_exhibition_sources-1.pdf | the PDF (read once 2026-11-15, sha256 454999ee..., as kept) lists the Herringbone at pp. 418-419, and also the twelve Hand-Book patterns including "4. Shell Pattern" and "5. Leaf and Trellis Pattern", the titles of this book's d'oyleys XII and I; "one ... shares its title" leaves out the page's own Leaf and Trellis (finding 5)
- CONFIRMED | [harrigan-errors] and one of them wrote of the project’s patterns that In numerous cases it turned out that the directions were either too difficult to understand or actually had errors in them | https://www.thismanknits.com/2016/01/17/shetland-19th-century-lace-patterns-project/ | This Man Knits, 17 January 2016, signed MikeH ("Connect with Michael"); the panel credits Michael Harrigan with Lambert's Scallop Pattern
- CONFIRMED | [thread-forward] And a blog, Thread Forward, appears from its titles to have knitted through this book in order; | https://thread-forward.com/2019/10/04/mkb-33-ix-fishbone-pattern/ (seen as a search result 2026-11-15, not fetched) | search results show "MKB 33: Fishbone Pattern" (2019/10/04) and "MKB 39: Pretty Stitch For a Purse" (2020/10/23); in the contents' order the Fish-bone is the 33rd receipt and Pretty Stitch the 39th, so "appears from its titles" holds
- OBSERVED | [thread-forward-robots] it asks automated readers to stay out, so this page has not read it. | recreated: node scripts/robots-policy.mjs https://thread-forward.com/ | "refused ... the * group says Disallow: /"; FETCH-LOG.tsv records the same
- OBSERVED | [no-published-count] We have found no published count of the whole book, which is not to say that none exists. | research/supposable-errors/sources/scholarship/FINDINGS.md | FINDINGS.md 2.10 records the searches (aimed at the d'oyleys) and finds none; the page's hedge matches the evidence
- CONFIRMED | [whole-79-80] The program could count 79 of the book’s 80 receipts; the other only points to four patterns printed earlier. | verify-supposable-errors.mjs | the repository file says it; recreated in the repository: node verify-supposable-errors.mjs --mutate, exit 0, 7252 passed, 0 failed, 13 of 13 plants caught; on AW_DIR copies of the three served files, 6712 passed
- CONFIRMED | [other-patterns] the other only points to four patterns printed earlier. | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [whole-classes] Of those 79, 40 work however her words are read: every row ends where its stitches do, and every count holds. Eleven fail however they are read, under every reading the readers tried. The other 28 turn on a reading: on how one of her phr... | verify-supposable-errors.mjs | recreated in the repository: node verify-supposable-errors.mjs --mutate, exit 0, 7252 passed, 0 failed, 13 of 13 plants caught; on AW_DIR copies of the three served files, 6712 passed; inPart recounted from data.json: 5
- CONFIRMED | [stated-counts] she does so 21 times in 13 receipts, and her words reach 17 of those counts. | verify-supposable-errors.mjs | recounted from data.json judged[].stated: 21 stated counts in 13 receipts, 17 reached; the four missed are the Shell Cuffs (160, 100), the Knitted Lace (12) and the Night-Sock (88)
- CONFIRMED | [stated-quote] Where she states a count (there will now be), she does so 21 times in 13 receipts, | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [loop-question] The receipts that turn on a reading are the book’s most interesting, and the question they raise most often is whether her words make a loop. | public/strata/supposable-errors/data.json | data.json readings bear it out; "most interesting" is the page's judgment
- CONFIRMED | [twice-round-quote] Knit one, turning the wool twice round the needle can make one long stitch, a stitch and a loop, or a stitch and two loops. | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [twice-round-claim] Her double knitting works only if it makes the long stitch, and her counterpane and her cross-stitch quilt only if it makes the stitch and the loop, so no one reading of the phrase serves all three. | public/strata/supposable-errors/data.json | data.json alternatives as stated; recreated the record's command for the cross-stitch quilt read as a long stitch: "count-drifts 20 5 2 1 / 21 6 2 1 / 31 8 2 1"
- CONFIRMED | [silk-forward-quote] Bring the silk forward before a pearl stitch either makes a loop or only brings the silk to the front so that the stitch can be pearled: two of her purses need the second, before pearl one, | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [silk-forward-quote-fine] and a third needs the first, before pearl two together. | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [silk-forward-claim] two of her purses need the second, before pearl one, and a third needs the first, before pearl two together. | public/strata/supposable-errors/data.json | data.json: A Purse and the Herringbone work only with wf before "pearl one"; A Purse in fine Silk only with yo before "pearl two together"
- CONFIRMED | [cast-on-rule-quote] And a few cast-on rules (any number of stitches that may be divided by three) allow numbers on which the pattern goes wrong. | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [tbl-receipts] works however it is read | public/strata/supposable-errors/data.json | build-page.mjs --check: index.html current; the table's classes count 40 / 28 / 11 / 1
- CONFIRMED | [letter-asked] Madam, you asked the ladies using your books for corrections of any mistakes they might discover, and said you could not attend to anonymous communications. | https://archive.org/details/krl00394036 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00394036/krl00394036_djvu.txt) | a fair paraphrase of the 1847 preface (OCR, p. IV)
- CONFIRMED | [letter-180-years] it comes about a hundred and eighty years late, | https://archive.org/details/krl00394036 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00394036/krl00394036_djvu.txt) | 2026 - 1847 = 179, "about a hundred and eighty"
- OBSERVED | [letter-held-to-1845] We knitted every receipt of your first series by your own Explanation of Terms, and held each to the words of your twelfth edition of 1845, in which you had already mended the Leaf and Trellis. | research/supposable-errors/README.md | the record describes the observation
- CONFIRMED | [letter-left-out] so we have left out every receipt that works under some reading of your words, the 28 among them that work under one reading and fail under another included; in those, the misunderstanding may well be ours. What is left fails under every... | verify-supposable-errors.mjs | recreated in the repository: node verify-supposable-errors.mjs --mutate, exit 0, 7252 passed, 0 failed, 13 of 13 plants caught; on AW_DIR copies of the three served files, 6712 passed; the letter names 10 receipts, the 11 faulty less the Leaf and Trellis
- MINOR | [knitter-of-her-day] A knitter of your day would settle some of it without a thought, by knitting a last stitch plain; we list it because your words do not settle it. | https://marvellousmechanicalyarn.blogspot.com/2019/04/france-lamberts-opera-cap.html | the excerpt is general ("an element of experimentation and knowledge expected"); nothing cited says how an 1840s knitter finished such a row, as the record's note concedes; the book's own 1844 "Finish with two plain stitches" would be closer support (finding 12)
- CONFIRMED | [letter-pages] The pages named are those of your first edition. | research/supposable-errors/receipts-1843.json | the 1843 contents give 18, 43, 44, 47, 56, 59, 82, 88, 92, 104
- CONFIRMED | [letter-list] the fifth row stops partway through its repeat one stitch down, with no words to finish it. | public/strata/supposable-errors/data.json | build-page.mjs --check: current; redone by hand: the Shell Cuffs 166 / 160 and 104 / 100, the Night-Sock 75 / 88, the Gothic fifth row one down, the Scotch third row short, the Strong Purse third row one up; the Shetland 12 to 16 is data.json's (cycles 12 16 16 16)
- CONFIRMED | [letter-q-shell-thirteen] where you write “which, with the loop stitch, will make thirteen from the last pearled stitch”, your rows leave 166 stitches where those words count 160; | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [letter-q-shell-hundred] where you write “There will now be the same number of stitches on the needles as at the commencement, viz.—seven for the shell part of the pattern, and three for the division.”, your rows leave 104 stitches where those words count 100. | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [letter-q-night-sock] where you write “cast off twenty-five stitches; knit thirty-eight stitches, same as second row; cast off remaining twenty-five stitches.”, your rows leave 75 stitches where those words count 88. | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [limits-words] The program sees only her words. It cannot see what a knitter of 1843 did without thinking at the end of a row, and it does not pretend that such a row is a mistake: it reports what the words leave undecided, and keeps that apart from co... | research/supposable-errors/README.md | the repository file says it; recreated in the repository: node verify-supposable-errors.mjs --mutate, exit 0, 7252 passed, 0 failed, 13 of 13 plants caught; on AW_DIR copies of the three served files, 6712 passed
- CONFIRMED | [limits-shape] Her twelfth edition put the Long Sleeves’ new stitches on both edges, where the first could be read as putting them on one; to a program that counts stitches, those are the same sleeve. | research/supposable-errors/impressions/changes.json | the repository file says it; recreated in the repository: node verify-supposable-errors.mjs --mutate, exit 0, 7252 passed, 0 failed, 13 of 13 plants caught; on AW_DIR copies of the three served files, 6712 passed
- OBSERVED | [limits-second-series] The second, whose preface asks for the corrections, is held here only as reprinted in 1847, | research/supposable-errors/sources/scholarship/FINDINGS.md | the record describes the observation
- CONFIRMED | [limits-faults-quote] after the faults of the first impressions have been corrected, | https://archive.org/details/krl00394036 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00394036/krl00394036_djvu.txt) | excerpt in the live OCR, which is byte-identical to the kept copy (fetched 2026-11-15); supports the claim
- MINOR | [limits-no-first-impression] and no scan of those first impressions could be found to set beside it | research/supposable-errors/sources/scholarship/FINDINGS.md | the record's own table (FINDINGS.md 3) has a HathiTrust record "My knitting book. (J. Murray, 1846) (page images at HathiTrust)", series not stated, refused to us: a candidate scan was found and could not be read, which "could be found" does not say (finding 10)
- CONFIRMED | [bl-1846] (the British Library has a copy dated 1846, which may be one). | https://knittinghistory.co.uk/richard-rutt-and-frances-lambert/ | Kentfield 2022: "I could only find a second series copy in the British Library dated 1846" (note 10); "may be one" is hedged rightly
- CONFIRMED | [limits-row-language] Its row language cannot say everything in the book (a turn in the middle of a row, beads, colours, the making-up); where a receipt needs what it cannot say, that receipt’s reading says so, and it is counted only as far as it can be. | research/supposable-errors/README.md | the repository file says it; recreated in the repository: node verify-supposable-errors.mjs --mutate, exit 0, 7252 passed, 0 failed, 13 of 13 plants caught; on AW_DIR copies of the three served files, 6712 passed
- OBSERVED | [limits-readers] Every receipt was read into the program’s language by a careful reader working from a written brief, and every choice that reader made is recorded, with the reason, beside the receipt. | research/supposable-errors/README.md; recreated: data.json readings | 462 reading entries, every one with a choice and a reason
- CONFIRMED | [check-node] verify-supposable-errors.mjs needs only Node. From an empty directory it downloads this page, data.json and the bench’s engine.mjs, | verify-supposable-errors.mjs | the verifier imports only node: modules; engine.mjs imports nothing; from an empty directory it fetches index.html, data.json and engine.mjs (now 404, not yet published, as expected)
- WRONG | [check-arithmetic] and knits every row of every receipt again with arithmetic of its own (it adds up what each row takes and gives, where the bench moves every stitch from one needle to the other). It holds the engine to that count row by row, sorts every ... | verify-supposable-errors.mjs | recreated on AW_DIR copies, one figure changed at a time: caught when the figure is in a data-v span (3 of 3); not caught (exit 0, 6699 passed, 0 failed) for the letter's 166, 160, 75 and 16, a receipt's class in the table, the 1844 ending quoted in the changes table, the prose "nine", "twenty-six" and "fourteen", and the meta, og and JSON-LD copies of the dek's 40, 11 and 28; a span removed passes with 35 figures (finding 2)
- CONFIRMED | [check-mutate] With --mutate it also plants faults in copies of the data and the page (a cast-on one stitch out, a knit two together read as knit two, one of her 1844 endings taken away, a receipt left out of the letter, a number on the page changed) a... | verify-supposable-errors.mjs | recreated: "--mutate: 13 of 13 planted faults caught" in the repository and on AW_DIR copies
- CONFIRMED | [check-curl] curl -sSO https://artwaste.land/checks/verify-supposable-errors.mjs | public/checks/verify-supposable-errors.mjs | public/checks/verify-supposable-errors.mjs is byte for byte the root copy (cmp, 2026-11-15); the URL answers 404 until publish, as expected; the record's "The file served at /checks/" can only mean the repository copy
- OBSERVED | [check-diamond-fault] Before the page was published, that second count caught one fault in the engine itself: a repeat that ends by bringing the thread forward was stopped one loop short whenever the stitches ran out exactly at its end, so the Diamond Pattern... | research/supposable-errors/README.md; git show b04ea495 | the README entry, and the commit message "the verifier with its own arithmetic (which caught a whole-repeat bug in the engine)"
- OBSERVED | [check-words-gap] Planting faults then caught a gap in the check: it had never read the figures this page writes out in words. | research/supposable-errors/README.md; git log -S data-f -- verify-supposable-errors.mjs | at b04ea495 and 24654a8d the figure pattern was <span class="v" data-v="..."> with no data-f; 6c0e5c0e added it
- OBSERVED | [check-vandyke] And reading the letter below before sending it caught a third fault, in how rows were knitted alone. Every row of a pattern meant to keep its count was knitted on the stitches it was cast on with, which suits an allover pattern but not a... | research/supposable-errors/README.md | README record; redone by hand: rows 4 to 12 need more than the 7 cast on, nine rows
- CONFIRMED | [check-vandyke-growth] the Vandyke Border grows from seven stitches to eight, nine, eleven and fourteen before it casts off back to seven, and nine of its sound rows were listed as faults. | public/strata/supposable-errors/data.json | redone by hand from the receipt: 7, third row 8, fourth 9, seventh 11, ninth 14, twelfth "cast off all but seven" 7
- CONFIRMED | [check-rows-now] Rows are now knitted on the stitches the rows before them leave, and the check does the same with its own arithmetic. | verify-supposable-errors.mjs | the repository file says it; recreated in the repository: node verify-supposable-errors.mjs --mutate, exit 0, 7252 passed, 0 failed, 13 of 13 plants caught; on AW_DIR copies of the three served files, 6712 passed
- CONFIRMED | [check-alts] Every receipt’s reading is in data.json beside it, with every choice its reader made and the reason, and the 56 other readings the readers ran. | verify-supposable-errors.mjs | data.json: 70 alternatives, 14 marked unreadable, 56 run
- OBSERVED | [check-gutenberg-six] Where Project Gutenberg’s transcriber corrected the 1843 text (five places listed in the transcription’s note, and one more, Eight row printed for Eighth row, that it does not list), the program reads what was printed. | research/supposable-errors/split-1843.mjs | the live transcriber's note lists five corrections; split-1843.mjs UNDONE puts back those five and "Eight row"; receipts-1843.json has guage, "knit on.", slip-stich, "Knit twenty rows", "Eight row"
- CONFIRMED | [check-eight-row] one more, Eight row printed for Eighth row, that it does not list | https://archive.org/details/myknittingbook00lambgoog (OCR: https://archive.org/download/myknittingbook00lambgoog/myknittingbook00lambgoog_djvu.txt) | live Oxford-copy OCR: "Eight row -- ^pearl knitting."
- CONFIRMED | [check-eighth-row] one more, Eight row printed for Eighth row, that it does not list | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | live Gutenberg text: "Eighth row--pearl knitting." and the transcriber's note does not list it
- CONFIRMED | [cite-gutenberg] Miss Lambert, My Knitting Book (London: John Murray, 1843), in the transcription of Project Gutenberg (EBook #33502, 2010, by Constanze Hofmann and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team, from Google’s scans), | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt) | release 22 August 2010, "Produced by Constanze Hofmann and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ... from the Google Print project" (the live file now writes https://www.pgdp.net)
- CONFIRMED | [cite-oxford] checked against the Oxford copy scanned by Google (archive.org); | https://archive.org/metadata/myknittingbook00lambgoog | metadata fetched 2026-11-15: "Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University"
- CONFIRMED | [cite-krl] the seventh edition of 1844 (archive.org), the twelfth of 1845 (archive.org) and the Second Series of 1847 (archive.org), all from the University of Southampton’s Knitting Reference Library. | https://archive.org/metadata/krl00394035 | metadata fetched 2026-11-15 for krl00394035, krl00376340, krl00394036: collections include knittingreferencelibrary, contributor University of Southampton
- CONFIRMED | [licence] The library’s scans are licensed CC BY-NC-ND, | https://archive.org/metadata/krl00394035 | licenseurl http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ in all three (fetched 2026-11-15)
- OBSERVED | [licence-not-reproduced] so none is reproduced here. | research/supposable-errors/README.md | README; index.html has no <img>; the share card public/og/supposable-errors.png is the program's stitch map, not a scan
- CONFIRMED | [cite-kentfield-2020] Sally Kentfield, “Updated biography for France Lambert” (2020) | https://marvellousmechanicalyarn.blogspot.com/2020/08/updated-biography-for-france-lambert.html | assay/sources.mjs --online found the excerpt at the URL (2026-11-15); read in context, it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [cite-khf-2022] “Richard Rutt and Frances Lambert” (Knitting History Forum, 2022), which quotes Rutt; | https://knittinghistory.co.uk/richard-rutt-and-frances-lambert/ | assay/sources.mjs --online found the excerpt at the URL (2026-11-15); read in context, it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [cite-odnb] Lynn Hulse, “Lambert [married name Sedgwick], Frances (1798–1880)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2024), doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.90000382473; | https://api.crossref.org/works/10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.90000382473 | Crossref live 2026-11-15: title, author and year as cited; the DOI resolves to the ODNB entry
- CONFIRMED | [cite-karp] Cary Karp, “Frances Lambert’s knitting needle gauge” (Loopholes, 2020), for George Hope’s words; | https://loopholes.blog/2020/09/lambert-gauge/ | Loopholes, "Frances Lambert's knitting needle gauge", 1 September 2020, Cary Karp
- CONFIRMED | [cite-habit] Franklin Habit’s Pence Jug and Miss Lambert’s Lace Sampler | https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/miss-lamberts-lace-sampler | assay/sources.mjs --online found the excerpt at the URL (2026-11-15); read in context, it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [cite-sowerby] Jane Sowerby’s Leaf and Trellis rectangle, as Ravelry lists them; | https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/large-rectangle-in-leaf-and-trellis-pattern-with-trellis-border | assay/sources.mjs --online found the excerpt at the URL (2026-11-15); read in context, it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [cite-victorian-lace-today] Victorian Lace Today (2006) has a large rectangle in the Leaf and Trellis Pattern | https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/sources/victorian-lace-today/patterns | assay/sources.mjs --online found the excerpt at the URL (2026-11-15); read in context, it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [cite-knitted-lace] the Ravelry note on the Knitted Lace; | https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/knitted-lace-1894 | assay/sources.mjs --online found the excerpt at the URL (2026-11-15); read in context, it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [cite-shetland] the Shetland Museum and Archives, Authenticity in ‘Shetland’ Lace Knitting, | https://www.shetlandmuseumandarchives.org.uk/education/museum-store/research-projects/authenticity-in-shetland-lace-knitting | assay/sources.mjs --online found the excerpt at the URL (2026-11-15); read in context, it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [cite-harrigan] and Michael Harrigan’s account of knitting for it (This Man Knits, 2016). | https://www.thismanknits.com/2016/01/17/shetland-19th-century-lace-patterns-project/ | assay/sources.mjs --online found the excerpt at the URL (2026-11-15); read in context, it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [chg-long-sleeves-to-wear-under-the-dress-materials] No. 17 needles, and six-thread embroidery fleecy. became No. 17 needles, and three-thread fleecy. | https://archive.org/details/krl00376340 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00376340/krl00376340_djvu.txt) | transcription matches the live OCR (https://archive.org/download/krl00376340/krl00376340_djvu.txt) at 100% of its five-word runs, the rest OCR noise; it says what the page quotes
- CONFIRMED | [chg-long-sleeves-to-wear-under-the-dress-the-thirty-five-turns] Knit thirty-five turns plain,—increasing one stitch at the beginning and end of the first row of each turn. | https://archive.org/details/krl00376340 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00376340/krl00376340_djvu.txt) | transcription matches the live OCR (https://archive.org/download/krl00376340/krl00376340_djvu.txt) at 100% of its five-word runs, the rest OCR noise; it says what the page quotes
- CONFIRMED | [chg-leaf-and-trellis-pattern-eighth-row] Eighth row—knit eight;(d) bring the thread forward, knit two together, three times: bring the thread forward, knit two; knit two together; knit one; knit two together; knit two; bring the thread forward, knit five.—Repeat from (d).—Finis... | https://archive.org/details/krl00394035 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) | transcription matches the live OCR (https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) at 100% of its five-word runs, the rest OCR noise; it says what the page quotes
- CONFIRMED | [chg-leaf-and-trellis-pattern-tenth-row] Tenth row—knit nine;(e) bring the thread forward, knit two together, three times; bring the thread forward, knit two; slip one; knit two together, pass the slipped stitch over them; knit two; bring the thread forward, knit seven.—Repeat ... | https://archive.org/details/krl00394035 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) | transcription matches the live OCR (https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) at 100% of its five-word runs, the rest OCR noise; it says what the page quotes
- CONFIRMED | [chg-leaf-and-trellis-pattern-fourteenth-row] Fourteenth row—knit four;(g) knit two together; knit two; bring the thread forward, knit two together, three times; bring the thread forward, knit three; bring the thread forward, knit two; knit two together; knit three.—Repeat from (g).... | https://archive.org/details/krl00394035 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) | transcription matches the live OCR (https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) at 100% of its five-word runs, the rest OCR noise; it says what the page quotes
- CONFIRMED | [chg-leaf-and-trellis-pattern-sixteenth-row] Sixteenth row—knit three;(h) knit two together; knit two; bring the thread forward, knit two together, three times; bring the thread forward, knit five; bring the thread forward; knit two; knit two together; knit one.—Repeat from (h).—Fi... | https://archive.org/details/krl00394035 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) | transcription matches the live OCR (https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) at 100% of its five-word runs, the rest OCR noise; it says what the page quotes
- CONFIRMED | [chg-leaf-and-trellis-pattern-eighteenth-row] Eighteenth row—knit two; knit two together;(i) knit two; bring the thread forward, knit two together, three times; bring the thread forward, knit seven; bring the thread forward, knit two; slip one; knit two together, pass the slipped st... | https://archive.org/details/krl00394035 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) | transcription matches the live OCR (https://archive.org/download/krl00394035/krl00394035_djvu.txt) at 100% of its five-word runs, the rest OCR noise; it says what the page quotes
- CONFIRMED | [chg-rose-leaf-pattern-first-row] First row—knit one;(a) pearl one; knit two together; knit two; bring the thread forward, knit one; bring the thread forward, knit two; knit two together.—Repeat from (a). Finish with—pearl one; knit one. | https://archive.org/details/krl00376340 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00376340/krl00376340_djvu.txt) | transcription matches the live OCR (https://archive.org/download/krl00376340/krl00376340_djvu.txt) at 100% of its five-word runs, the rest OCR noise; it says what the page quotes
- CONFIRMED | [chg-rose-leaf-pattern-second-row] Second row—knit one;(b) knit one; pearl two together; pearl one; bring the thread forward, turning it round the needle, pearl three; turn the thread round the needle, pearl one; pearl two together.—Repeat from (b). Finish with—knit two. | https://archive.org/details/krl00376340 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00376340/krl00376340_djvu.txt) | transcription matches the live OCR (https://archive.org/download/krl00376340/krl00376340_djvu.txt) at 100% of its five-word runs, the rest OCR noise; it says what the page quotes
- CONFIRMED | [chg-rose-leaf-pattern-third-row] Third row—knit one;(c) pearl one; knit two together; bring the thread forward, knit five; bring the thread forward, knit two together.—Repeat from (c). Finish with—pearl one; knit one. | https://archive.org/details/krl00376340 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00376340/krl00376340_djvu.txt) | transcription matches the live OCR (https://archive.org/download/krl00376340/krl00376340_djvu.txt) at 100% of its five-word runs, the rest OCR noise; it says what the page quotes
- CONFIRMED | [chg-rose-leaf-pattern-fourth-row] Fourth row—knit one; pearl two together;(d) bring the thread forward, turning it round the needle; pearl seven; bring the thread forward, turning it round the needle, pearl three together. Repeat from (d). Finish with—turn the thread rou... | https://archive.org/details/krl00376340 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00376340/krl00376340_djvu.txt) | transcription matches the live OCR (https://archive.org/download/krl00376340/krl00376340_djvu.txt) at 100% of its five-word runs, the rest OCR noise; it says what the page quotes
- CONFIRMED | [chg-rose-leaf-pattern-fifth-row] Fifth row—knit two; bring the thread forward, knit two; knit two together; repeat, as in the first row, from (a). Finish with—bring the thread forward, knit two. | https://archive.org/details/krl00376340 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00376340/krl00376340_djvu.txt) | transcription matches the live OCR (https://archive.org/download/krl00376340/krl00376340_djvu.txt) at 100% of its five-word runs, the rest OCR noise; it says what the page quotes
- CONFIRMED | [chg-rose-leaf-pattern-sixth-row] Sixth row—knit one; pearl two; bring the thread forward, turning it round the needle, pearl one; pearl two together; repeat, as in second row, from (b). Finish with—turn the thread round the needle, pearl two; knit one. | https://archive.org/details/krl00376340 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00376340/krl00376340_djvu.txt) | transcription matches the live OCR (https://archive.org/download/krl00376340/krl00376340_djvu.txt) at 100% of its five-word runs, the rest OCR noise; it says what the page quotes
- CONFIRMED | [chg-rose-leaf-pattern-seventh-row] Seventh row—knit four; bring the thread forward, knit two together; repeat, as in third row, from (c). Finish with—bring the thread forward, knit four. | https://archive.org/details/krl00376340 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00376340/krl00376340_djvu.txt) | transcription matches the live OCR (https://archive.org/download/krl00376340/krl00376340_djvu.txt) at 100% of its five-word runs, the rest OCR noise; it says what the page quotes
- CONFIRMED | [chg-rose-leaf-pattern-eighth-row] Eighth row—knit one; pearl four; bring the thread forward, turning it round the needle, pearl three together; repeat, as in fourth row, from (d). Finish with—bring the thread forward, turning it round the needle, pearl four; knit one. | https://archive.org/details/krl00376340 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00376340/krl00376340_djvu.txt) | transcription matches the live OCR (https://archive.org/download/krl00376340/krl00376340_djvu.txt) at 91% of its five-word runs, the rest OCR noise; it says what the page quotes
- CONFIRMED | [chg-wheel-pattern-for-tidies-etc-materials] Flax knitting thread, No. 10.—Needles, No. 18. Cast on any number of stitches that can be divided by ten. became Cast on any number of stitches that can be divided by ten. Needles, No. 18. | https://archive.org/details/krl00376340 (OCR: https://archive.org/download/krl00376340/krl00376340_djvu.txt) | transcription matches the live OCR (https://archive.org/download/krl00376340/krl00376340_djvu.txt) at 100% of its five-word runs, the rest OCR noise; it says what the page quotes
- CONFIRMED | [tbl-gentlemens-muffatees] turns on a reading: 'the first and last stitches being plain' | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [tbl-a-brioche-note] (counted in part: the conical stripe is knitted in short rows ("and turn ... taking each time two more stitches"), which the row language cannot knit; only the narrow stripe is counted) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [tbl-a-sontag-or-cephaline-note] (counted in part: the forty-two shaping rows ("taking in one stitch at the end of almost every row") do not say which rows decrease, so they are not knitted and her seventy-two after them is not tested; only the rows printed stitch by st... | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [tbl-double-knitting-for-comforters-etc] turns on a reading: 'bring the wool forward, slip one; pass the wool back'; 'knit one, turning the wool twice round the needle' | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [tbl-knitted-lace] turns on a reading: the sixth row's three 'slip one; knit one, pass the slip-stitch over it' | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [tbl-coral-trimming-for-a-muslin-dress] turns on a reading: 'Turn the wool round the needle, so as to bring it in front again' | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [tbl-barley-corn-stitch] turns on a reading: 'turn the wool round the needle, so as to bring it in front again' | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [tbl-point-pattern] turns on a reading: re-read after failure: the seventh row; the seventh row: whose loop is the last 'bring the thread forward' | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [tbl-chevron-pattern-note] (counted in part: six of its rows are given as a rule in prose ("bringing the thread forward before the open stitch of the preceding row"), which the readers turned into rows themselves; the six rows printed in full are her words) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [tbl-fish-bone-pattern] turns on a reading: 'bring the thread forward, slip one, taking it in front'; 'There will be three plain stitches to knit at the end of the row' | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [tbl-diamond-pattern] turns on a reading: 'bring the thread forward, slip one; knit two together, pass the slip-stitch over them' (fifth row) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [tbl-a-purse] turns on a reading: 'bring the silk forward, pearl one' | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [tbl-a-purse-in-fine-silk] turns on a reading: 'bring the silk forward, pearl two together' | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [tbl-herringbone-or-shetland-stitch-for-a-purse] turns on a reading: 'bring the silk forward, pearl one' | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [tbl-knitted-fringe] turns on a reading: 'leaving three to unravel' | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [tbl-a-warm-double-knitted-scarf-in-two-colours] turns on a reading: 'bring the wool forward, slip one; pass the wool back'; 'knit one, turning the wool twice round the needle' | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [tbl-a-russian-shawl-in-brioche-stitch] turns on a reading: no row or repeat is printed; 'bring the wool forward' | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [tbl-double-diamond-stitch-for-a-quilt] turns on a reading: how the double stitch after the first one is 'knitted' | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [tbl-a-quilt] turns on a reading: 'turn the wool round the needle, and bring it again in front' | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [tbl-a-light-and-warm-counterpane] turns on a reading: 'turning the wool twice round the needle' (and 'twisting'); the third and fourth rows print no repeat | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [tbl-cross-stitch-pattern-for-a-quilt] turns on a reading: 'turning the wool twice round the needle' and 'once round the needle'; 'knit the long stitch and the one that was knitted in the last row together'; what 'Repeat to the end of the row' repeats in the second row | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [tbl-a-quilt-or-couvre-pied-in-squares] turns on a reading: 'Work five more rows, in the same manner' | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [tbl-a-babys-sock] turns on a reading: 'Knit six more turns, increasing a stitch at one end only, for the toe'; rows of 'bring the wool forward, knit two together' with no 'Repeat' | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [tbl-a-babys-stocking] turns on a reading: 'knit six turns,--increasing one stitch at each end, for the toe and heel'; 'Knit six turns, increasing one stitch only, at the toe'; 'decreasing one stitch in every other turn, at the beginning and end' | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- CONFIRMED | [tbl-wheel-pattern-for-tidies-etc] turns on a reading: 'Repeat' with no letter and nothing after it | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502 (text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt) | excerpt found in the live Gutenberg text, fetched 2026-11-15 (its book text equals the kept 2010 copy once Gutenberg's newer accent-free spelling is folded, and the body of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt equals the kept copy byte for byte); it says what the page says
- MINOR | [added: seo-title] Supposable Errors: Miss Lambert's 1843 Knitting Book, Every Stitch Counted | src/content/strata/supposable-errors.md (seoTitle; also the <title> of public/strata/supposable-errors/index.html and the share card) | the page itself says five receipts are counted only in part and one not at all (finding 4)
- CONFIRMED | [added: others-trouble] Others have knitted these receipts, and some have found trouble in them. | https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/knitted-lace-1894 | "There appears to be an error in the pattern"; and Harrigan on the Shetland project's patterns (thismanknits.com, 2016)
- CONFIRMED | [added: nearby-6068] Leonardo's proportions measured on 6,068 bodies there | src/content/strata/the-seventh-part-of-the-man.md | that layer's dek: "against 6,068 US soldiers measured in 2010 to 2012"
- CONFIRMED | [added: nearby-fowre] a Tudor title page's 'Fowre persons may easily play it' | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/textcreationpartnership/A14715/master/A14715.xml | fetched 2026-11-15: "Fowre persons may easily play it." (George Wapull, The Tide Tarrieth No Man, 1576)

## Findings
- [fixed] 1. MED, WRONG (no-doyleys-1842). The page (public/strata/supposable-errors/index.html line 73): "at least eighteen had appeared there, the Brioche among them in a different form, but none of the twelve patterns for d’oyleys." The 1842 Hand-Book (archive.org krl00402951, pp. 285-287; kept as research/supposable-errors/sources/scholarship/archive.org_download_krl00402951_krl00402951_djvu.txt, refetched 2026-11-15 and identical) prints "PATTERN FOR A CHAIR TIDY, OR D’OYLEY. Cast on one hundred and sixty-eight stitches. This will form the foundation, on which the pattern is to be repeated eight times." and then, row for row, the twelve rows of d'oyley X, the German Pattern: 1842 "Second row—knit two together; knit three; knit two together; knit one; bring the wool forward, knit one; bring the wool forward, knit one; knit two together; knit three; knit two together; knit one; bring the wool forward, knit one; bring the wool forward, knit two", 1843 "Second row--knit two together; knit three; knit two together; knit one; bring the thread forward, knit one; bring the thread forward, knit one; knit two together; knit three; knit two together; knit one; bring the thread forward, knit one; bring the thread forward, knit two.--Repeat." (likewise rows 4 to 12, "draw the slip stitch" for "pass the slip-stitch"; 168 = 8 x 21, the German Pattern's "twenty-one stitches for each pattern"). The record's negative came from a title search, which cannot see a renamed receipt (its note: "its text was not compared with them"). The same OCR also has KNITTED FRINGE and VANDYKE BORDER (the same receipts, "make one" for "bring the ... forward") and, in other forms, LONG SLEEVES TO WEAR UNDER THE DRESS ("No. 14 needles", "increasing one stitch on each turn") and COVER FOR AN AIR CUSHION, so "at least eighteen" stands but is low. Fix at index.html line 73, e.g. "at least twenty-two had appeared there, some in a different form (the Brioche, the Long Sleeves), and one of the twelve patterns for d’oyleys, the German Pattern, as the Hand-Book’s Pattern for a Chair Tidy, or D’Oyley"; and the record entries no-doyleys-1842 and eighteen-in-handbook, FINDINGS.md 2.4 and 7. Fixed: checked on the kept 1842 OCR (archive.org_download_krl00402951_krl00402951_djvu.txt, line 13851 on: "PATTERN FOR A CHAIR TIDY, OR D’OYLEY.", 168 stitches, the pattern "repeated eight times", its rows the German Pattern's). The page now says "more than twenty had appeared there, some in a different form, and one of the twelve patterns for d’oyleys among them: the German Pattern is the Hand-Book’s Pattern for a Chair Tidy, or D’Oyley, row for row"; the source record's entries are rewritten, and FINDINGS.md carries an erratum.
- [fixed] 2. MED, WRONG (check-arithmetic). The page (index.html line 244): "It holds the engine to that count row by row, sorts every receipt into its class again, and fails if any figure on this page says otherwise." The verifier reads only the 36 <span class="v" data-v> figures and the receipt names in the letter (verify-supposable-errors.mjs, checkPage at line 472, and check()). Planted one at a time in copies of the three served files (AW_DIR): a changed figure inside a span is caught (the dek's 40 to 41, "Of the 11" to 12, the Leaf and Trellis 43 to 44); every other change passes, exit 0, "6699 passed, 0 failed": the letter's "your rows leave 166 stitches" to 165, "where those words count 160" to 150, "75 stitches" to 76, "leaves 16" to 17; Siberian Cuffs' "works however it is read" to "fails however it is read" in the table; the 1844 "Finish with two plain stitches" to "three" in the changes table; the prose "nine of its sound rows" to eight, "twenty-six" to "twenty-four", "eleven and fourteen" to "fifteen"; the meta description's 40 to 41, og:description's 11 to 12, the JSON-LD's 28 to 27; and a span replaced by a bare 78 passes, with "35 figures". Every one of these figures is right today (node research/supposable-errors/build-page.mjs --check: "index.html is current"; 166/160, 104/100 and 75/88 redone by hand). The page prints no run of the verifier, so step 6's self-reading trap does not arise; this is coverage. Fix: in verify-supposable-errors.mjs recompute the letter's "leave N stitches where those words count M" and each table row's class from its own facts, check that the head's descriptions equal the dek, and require the expected set of data-v keys; or narrow the sentence at index.html line 244 to the figures it checks. Fixed both ways. The verifier now also requires every figure key the page should print (a figure taken out of its span fails), the head's descriptions equal to the dek, each row of the table of receipts to carry its own verdict, class and count of rows that strand the knitter, every number in the letter, and every line of the table of her changes (checkPageMore). Five plants were added from this pass's own mutations (a number in the letter, a class in the table, a word in the changes table, the head's description, a figure out of its span), and --mutate catches 18 of 18. The page's sentence now names what it checks; numbers written into the prose by hand are said in the verifier's header to be the claims pass's to read.
- [fixed] 3. MED, the repository's online check fails. `node verify-supposable-errors.mjs --online` inside the repository (2026-11-15) exits 1: "7240 passed, 1 failed / FAIL F: the book text Gutenberg serves now is the kept copy's". Cause: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33502/pg33502.txt ("Most recently updated: January 6, 2021") now writes È, è, æ and é without accents (THE STANDARD FILIERE, Barege, Applique, Athenaeum) and lacks the 2010 file's last line "End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of My Knitting Book, by Miss Lambert", which the comparison includes because it slices to '*** END' (its comment says "to the end of the last receipt"). With accents folded and that line dropped the book texts are identical, and https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt still serves the 2010 Latin-1 text whose book body equals the kept copy byte for byte. Not reader-facing (the online checks run only inside the repository) and nothing on the page changes. Fix: verify-supposable-errors.mjs lines 510-519: fetch 33502-8.txt and decode it as Latin-1, or fold accents and stop at the end of the transcriber's note. Fixed: the online check now compares the kept copy, byte for byte from the title to the end of the last receipt, with https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt (the 2010 release Gutenberg still serves; robots-policy allows it). `node verify-supposable-errors.mjs --online`: 7241 passed, 0 failed.
- [fixed] 4. MINOR (kicker, dek-knitted-by-program, added seo-title). "every receipt knitted by a program, every stitch counted" (index.html line 34), "Every Stitch Counted" (seoTitle, src/content/strata/supposable-errors.md line 5, and index.html line 6), "counting every stitch" (the dek, index.html line 36, frontmatter line 4) and "every stitch counted" on the share card (research/supposable-errors/og/og.html line 9), against the page's own "Five are counted only in part, where the book describes work in words the program cannot knit" (data.json: the Brioche's conical stripe, the Sontag's forty-two shaping rows and the Pence Jug's bottom are not knitted) and one receipt with no knitting. Fix: e.g. "every row it could knit, every stitch counted". Fixed: kicker "One knitting book, 1843, knitted by a program, stitch by stitch"; seoTitle and <title> "... Knitted by a Program"; dek "knitted the receipts of her 1843 My Knitting Book by program ... counting the stitches as it went"; the share card's line "knitted by a program" (re-shot, thumbnails rebuilt); the queued Bluesky card's title follows the seoTitle.
- [fixed] 5. MINOR (shetland-herringbone). "(one, the Hand-Book’s Herringbone, or Shetland Stitch for a Purse, shares its title with a receipt in this book)" (index.html line 129). The project's list of sources (https://www.shetlandmuseumandarchives.org.uk/site/assets/files/2024/authenticity_exhibition_sources-1.pdf) and its Lambert panel (.../2024/1__lambert.pdf, read once 2026-11-15, the same files as the kept excerpts by sha256) name among the twelve Hand-Book patterns "4. Shell Pattern" and "5. Leaf and Trellis Pattern ... Knit by Mhairi MacKenzie on 2.75 needles", the titles of this book's d'oyleys XII and I (FINDINGS.md 2.4 notes it). A reader is left to think the Herringbone is the only overlap, when the project knitted a Lambert "Leaf and Trellis Pattern". Fix: name the Leaf and Trellis and the Shell too, saying their 1846 texts were not compared (HathiTrust only). Fixed: "(three of them, the Hand-Book’s Leaf and Trellis, Shell and Herringbone patterns, share their titles with receipts in this book; their words are not compared here)".
- [fixed] 6. MINOR (lt-who-found). "Between the first edition and the seventh, she, or a knitter who wrote to her, found the same rows the program finds, reading the first edition alone. The book does not say which." (index.html line 102). Nothing kept says who found them (editions.md: "this comparison cannot say which"; the record's own note allows a reader at the printer's or the publisher's). Fix: "someone (she, a knitter who wrote to her, or a reader at the press) found ...". Fixed: "someone found the same rows the program finds, reading the first edition alone: she, a knitter who wrote to her, or a reader at the press. The book does not say who."
- [fixed] 7. MINOR (filiere-sizes). "and every needle in it is sized on that gauge" (index.html line 75). The book's N.B. says "The sizes of the needles are given according to the Standard Filière", but it gives some needles in inches: A Baby's Hood "two, each one inch in circumference", A Frileuse "Needles, one inch and three quarters in circumference" (Gutenberg #33502; Karp quotes her: needles "which exceed the size of No. 1, can readily be measured by an inch rule"). Fix: "and every needle it numbers is numbered on that gauge". Fixed: "and the needle numbers in it are numbers on that gauge" (her N.B.: "The sizes of the needles are given according to the Standard Filière").
- [fixed] 8. MINOR (ls-1843). "The same edition changed one clause of the Long Sleeves to wear under the Dress." (index.html line 104), while the table below it shows the same 1845 edition also changing the receipt's materials ("No. 17 needles, and six-thread embroidery fleecy. became No. 17 needles, and three-thread fleecy.", confirmed in the live 1845 OCR). Fix: "changed the Long Sleeves' wool and one clause of its knitting". Fixed: "changed the Long Sleeves to wear under the Dress in two places, its wool and one clause of its knitting".
- [fixed] 9. MINOR (sowerby). "Jane Sowerby’s Victorian Lace Today (2006) has a large rectangle in the Leaf and Trellis Pattern, credited as an Original lace pattern by Miss Lambert." (index.html line 129), under "Others have knitted these receipts". The same Ravelry record quotes her: "While perusing Weldon’s Practical Knitter, Vol. 1, 1886, I discovered a leaf and trellis pattern ... found it to be Miss Lambert’s leaf and trellis extended from a 20 to a 43-stitch repeat with added decreases and yarn-overs" (https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/large-rectangle-in-leaf-and-trellis-pattern-with-trellis-border). Fix: add "which she met in Weldon’s Practical Knitter of 1886". Fixed: adds "which she says she recognised, extended, in Weldon’s Practical Knitter of 1886".
- [fixed] 10. MINOR (limits-no-first-impression). "and no scan of those first impressions could be found to set beside it" (index.html line 240). The record's own FINDINGS.md 3 lists a HathiTrust record, "My knitting book. (J. Murray, 1846) (page images at HathiTrust)", series not stated, which this site may not fetch. Fix: "no scan of those first impressions could be read here (HathiTrust lists an 1846 My Knitting Book, series not stated, which this site does not fetch)". Fixed: "no scan of those first impressions could be read here to set beside it".
- [fixed] 11. MINOR (preface-1843-piracy). "It also explained the price. The Hand-Book had been pirated, and from the low price at which it is fixed, nothing, but a very extended circulation, can ensure her from loss." (index.html line 72). The preface: "The numerous piracies that have been committed on her last mentioned work, have been one inducement to publish this little volume; and from the low price at which it is fixed, nothing, but a very extended circulation, can ensure her from loss." It gives the piracies as a reason to publish the volume, and says what the low price requires, not why it was set. Fix: "It also spoke of the price". Fixed: "It also gave a reason for the book, and a worry. The Hand-Book had been pirated, which was “one inducement to publish this little volume”, and ...".
- [fixed] 12. MINOR (knitter-of-her-day). "A knitter of your day would settle some of it without a thought, by knitting a last stitch plain" (index.html line 223). The cited source (Kentfield 2019, "an element of experimentation and knowledge expected") is general, and the record's note concedes nothing cited says how such rows were finished. Fix: "might", or cite the book's own 1844 "Finish with two plain stitches". Fixed: the sentence now rests on her own words: "Some of it a knitter could settle by knitting a last stitch or two plain, as your own seventh edition does in the Leaf and Trellis" (the 1844 "Finish with two plain stitches").
- [fixed] 13. MINOR (bench-legend). "Where a later edition changed the receipt, its year appears beside 1843." (index.html line 51). The year buttons come only from data.json variants (the Long Sleeves 1845, the Leaf and Trellis 1844, the Rose-leaf 1845), while 30 receipts carry later changes, so A Bonnet Cap, reworded in 1844 and 1845, shows no year. Fix: "Where a later edition changed the knitting, ...". Fixed: "Where a later edition changed the knitting, its year appears beside 1843."
- [fixed] 14. MINOR (the source record). In assay/sources/supposable-errors.json, 121 entries name a landing page as "source" (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33502, https://archive.org/details/<id>), so `node assay/sources.mjs supposable-errors --online` reports 121 NOT FOUND for words that are in the books (it took the landing pages as readable; none contains "Leaf and Trellis" or "supposable"). Point those entries at the texts (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt, https://archive.org/download/<id>/<id>_djvu.txt) so the online check can see the words. Also check-curl's note "The file served at /checks/ is byte for byte the repository's" cannot describe a served file before publishing (the two repository copies are identical). Fixed: where an entry's excerpt comes from a full text, the record now names the full text (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33502/33502-8.txt; https://archive.org/download/<id>/<id>_djvu.txt), keeping landing pages only for claims about the catalogue record.