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 . A Circular Hem with the Ld$eTurned Under garment during the pressing. The piece of muslinneed not be the full width or size of the gar-ment or hem. It can be a comparatively shortpiece and can be moved as the pressing is the hem has been pressed in this manner,hem the upper edge of the seam binding to
The new dressmaker; with complete and fully illustrated instructions on every point connected with sewing, dressmaking and tailoring, from the actual stitches to the cutting, making, altering, mending, and cleaning of clothes for ladies, misses, girls, children, infants, men and boys . A Circular Hem with the Ld$eTurned Under garment during the pressing. The piece of muslinneed not be the full width or size of the gar-ment or hem. It can be a comparatively shortpiece and can be moved as the pressing is the hem has been pressed in this manner,hem the upper edge of the seam binding to thegarment with invisible stitches. A HLM FOR A SLIGHTLY GORED ORSTRAIGHT SKIRT. The hem edge is turnedunder in the usual way. If an invisible sewingis desired, the turned-under edge of the hem isstitched close to the turning and then blind-stitched neatly and carefully to the Covering the Raw tdge of a CircularHem with 5eam-Binding CHAPTER 19 FACINGS False Hem or Facing—Straight Facing—Bias Facing—Shaped Facing—Sewed-On Facing— Applied Facing—Lxtension Facing—5ewed-On Facing—Applied Lxtension Facing^Corded Facing—Piped Facing A FALSE. HLM OR FACING is often preferred for the finish of an edge. A gar-ment can sometimes be cut from less material by using a facing, for a hem re-quires extra length or width while a facing can often be cut from pieces whichwould not otherwise be used. A hem is better than a facing for thin materials as the joining seam of the facing wouldlshow in transparent ma-terials and would not bepretty. A STRAIGHT FACINGis used if the edge tobe faced is a perfectlystraight line, no matterwhetiier the thread orgrain of the goods isstraight or bias. Thefacing may be cut ^i,^*^ III. 177. StrelchinS a Bias Facing of the material. ^^ to Fit a Curve A BIAS FACING is used if the edge to be face
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