I have to take a stab at this. The text image is from The Drygoodsman’s handy dictionary, page 31. It will hopefully be the 2nd wearable pair of drop stitch stockings.

Sooo…

Rembrant Rib.-Women’s plain stockings having groups of five dropped stitches separated by one inch of plain knitting running the full length of the stocking.

Uhhhh….. That’ll take some engineering. I think that rather than a 3/1 ratio that I will need a 4/2 or 6/2 ratio.
I don’t think 5 dropped stitches can work well and that the dry good stockings referred to are machine knit on machines that are much finer than what I have unless I chose to use lace yarn cranked pretty tight. Maybe I’ll 1st do a study tube 1st. I need to see how much it grows when the stitches drop.

My study is backwards. Had to frog and start over. DERP.

OK, just for myself, some notes

1. make some rib, 1/1, 20 rows, VERY LOOSE
2. switch out ribber needles putting stitches onto cylinder needles
3. put in plain needles but up, the better to make the YOs looser
4. lower new needles
5. crank 1 row

ummmmm. I don’t have all the words but I must remember things.

And I have my 1st study. I believe that for fingering weight and a 72 slot cylinder that 5 dropped stitches in a row do not work well. 3 is the limit and that’s pretty sloppy. Given that I think my Rembrant Rib stockings might be 3 dropped/5 plain. Nawwww, I’d rather go 1 dropped/5 or 7 plain.

It really is tempting to pull out the 96 slot cylinder and play with some laceweight yarn but I want to develop a recipe that standard cylinders work well for.

So I’ll go for a Rembrant Rib look rather than authenticity.

Ah right, I think this experiment is over. I learned some things. Onto making something I can wear.