. Scientific sewing and garment cutting, for use in schools and in the home;. MENT. While it is absolutely necessary that the outfit for a sewing depart-ment be complete, it may be very simple and inexpensive. The onedescribed is of this character. It is adequate for a class of from thirty-five to forty children. As a rule, less than an hour twice a week isdevoted to sewing, therefore this outfit is sufficient for the accommo-dation of between one hundred and two hundred pupils. The low, folding sewingtable, with one side laid off ininches and parts of inches, isused as a desk. The cost ofthes
. Scientific sewing and garment cutting, for use in schools and in the home;. MENT. While it is absolutely necessary that the outfit for a sewing depart-ment be complete, it may be very simple and inexpensive. The onedescribed is of this character. It is adequate for a class of from thirty-five to forty children. As a rule, less than an hour twice a week isdevoted to sewing, therefore this outfit is sufficient for the accommo-dation of between one hundred and two hundred pupils. The low, folding sewingtable, with one side laid off ininches and parts of inches, isused as a desk. The cost ofthese tables is not more thansixty cents each. Four pupilscan use one table. The chairs should be ofdifferent heights, in order thatthe children may all be able torest their feet on the floor. The case in which the workand materials are kept (which Sewing Case. is illustrated), is simply a series of nine shelves, arranged between twostandards four and one-half feet high, placed against the wall. Arrangedin tiers of seven on each shelf, are strong pasteboard boxes, furnished 17. 13 SCIENTIFIC SEWING AND GARMENT CUTTING. with small brass rings, so that they can be drawn out with ease. Eachbox is twelve inches long by eight wide, and is five inches deep. On thefront part, beneath the ring, is pasted a slip of paper bearing the nameof the pupil whose work is placed in the box. On the top of this caseis a tier of six wooden boxes in which the variouswools, threads, strips of canvas, and other smallthings used in the department, are kept. The little models of the first and secondgrades are kept in two or three large boxes, thename of the pupil being written on a slip of paper,and pinned to each model. When the pupil reachesthe third grade, she is given a separate box for her scissors case is a piece of cloth sixteen incheslong and eleven wide, on which is stitched a strip that,after it is hemmed across its length on one side, is seveninches wide and eighteen long. This piece is
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