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 . III. 355. A Rent Repaired withMending Tissue DARNING AND MLNDING 149 A PATCH may also be set in with mendiog tissue in cases where it is undesirable tohave any stitches showing. The hole is trimmed to a square or oblong shape, and a piececut the same shape, but a seams width wider all around. Lay the garment ove
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 . III. 355. A Rent Repaired withMending Tissue DARNING AND MLNDING 149 A PATCH may also be set in with mendiog tissue in cases where it is undesirable tohave any stitches showing. The hole is trimmed to a square or oblong shape, and a piececut the same shape, but a seams width wider all around. Lay the garment over anironing-board, as directed above, and, between the edges of the hole and the lapped edge ofthe patch lay strips of the mending tissue. Be careful not to have any of the tissueextending beyond the torn edge on the right side, as it -n-iU make an ugly mark after beingpressed. Illustration 356 shows a hole neatly mended by this method. A PATCH is generally used for mendingflannel or heavy woven underwear, particu-larly if the garment is too much worn to war-rant the time and work necessary for a carefuldarn. A FLANNEL PATCH is a piece of thematerial basted on the wrong side of the wornor torn part and catch-stitched to the gar-ment tvith small stitches all around the
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