The book, “Home Work” was published in Canada in 1891 and uses American terminology. This pattern can be made with any yarn and a hook size to suit.

For more information, see:
http://www.archive.org/stream/cihm_08942#page/n106/mode/1up

or

http://eco.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.08942/0003#3?r=0&...
pages 106-110.