This no-name pattern is from 1887 The Self-Instructor in Silk Knitting, Crocheting and Embroidery, published by Belding Brothers and Co. that sold the yarns called for in the patterns. However, you can use any block-able yarn. The pattern has a 10-stitch, 12-row repeat. All wrong-side rows are purl across. It’ll take about 1 hour to knit 2 inches of a 42-stitch-wide swatch.

Skills needed: cast on, slip, knit, purl, yarn over, k2tog, SSK and bind off in knit stitch.

Gauge is not important in this pattern. Any block-able yarn/thread will work. Make a swatch to check gauge and appearance.

74 yards of #10 crochet thread will make about 10 inches of a 42-stitch-wide strip in the stated gauge.