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 . .324. Gaging or French Gathers 111. 323. Two Rows of Gathers and press the little plait underthe thumb, drawing the needledown. (111. 322.) Do not use the point of theneedle, as it scratches and weakensthe material. Continue entirelyacross the gathers, putting theneedle under each stitch and hold-ing the plait f
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 . .324. Gaging or French Gathers 111. 323. Two Rows of Gathers and press the little plait underthe thumb, drawing the needledown. (111. 322.) Do not use the point of theneedle, as it scratches and weakensthe material. Continue entirelyacross the gathers, putting theneedle under each stitch and hold-ing the plait firmly with thethumb. Stroke the materialabove the gathering thread aswell as below it to make the gath-ers firm and even. TWO ROWS OF GATHERSare often used in dressmaking anddo not need stroking. A skirtjoined to a band, a sleeve set ina cuff or sewed into the armhole, TRIMMINGS 139. sliould be gathered twice so that the gathers willstay in the proper place. The second row is made with the stitchesdirectly in line with those of the first row and one-quarter or three-eighths of an inch below them.(111. 323.) If there is much fulness to be gath-ered, the spaces between the stitches may bolengthened. GAGING OR FRLNCH GATHLR5 is a style of shirring generally used whe]-e a quantity of mate- T>s «? 1 SI,- • .. ? must be adjusted to a comparativelv small Simple Shirring /»,» . \ rr^i ^-^ i . ,, - space. (III. 324.) Thestitehesinthiscasearemade evenly: long ones on the right sideand short ones on the under side ofthe material. Each successive rowof gathers has its long and shortstitches parallel, respectively, -waththose of the preceding row. Thethreads are all drawn up evenly,and fastened at the ends. SHIRRING is made of successiverows of gatherings. It is used as atrimming. There are several dif-ferent kinds of shirring, the use ofwhich must be d
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