The new dressmaker; with complete and fully illustrated instructions on every point connected with sewing, dressmaking and tailoring, from the actual stitches to the cutting, making, altering, mending, and cleaning of clothes for ladies, misses, girls, children, infants, men and boys . or as an ornamental trimming on tailored garments. They may be cut on the bias if of velvet or taffeta; crosswise if of woolen; length-wise if of cotton materials. Fold the strip at the center and catch the raw edges together with loose whip-stitches as shown in Illustration 292. Spread out the fold and press it
The new dressmaker; with complete and fully illustrated instructions on every point connected with sewing, dressmaking and tailoring, from the actual stitches to the cutting, making, altering, mending, and cleaning of clothes for ladies, misses, girls, children, infants, men and boys . or as an ornamental trimming on tailored garments. They may be cut on the bias if of velvet or taffeta; crosswise if of woolen; length-wise if of cotton materials. Fold the strip at the center and catch the raw edges together with loose whip-stitches as shown in Illustration 292. Spread out the fold and press it well. Baste into position on the garment and stitch by machine on both edges. CORDING is a very useful trimmingand is made with bias strips and Germantown or eider-down wool. The bias strips shouldbe about an inch and a quarter wide. Fold the strips lengthwise through the center andrun a seam a quarter of an inch from the fold edge. With the strips still wrong side out,slip the ends of several strands of Germantown or eider-down wool far enough into oneend of the tube-like covering so that you can sew them securely to it. Then with theloop end of a wre hairpin push the wool farther and farther into the covering, at the sametime turning the covering right side out. (111. 293.).
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Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, booksubjectsewing, bookyear1921
