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Dressmaking

Fales, Jane. [from old catalog] · 1917 · New York, Chicago [etc.] C. Scribner's sons · 117 pictures

A 1917 sewing textbook by Jane Fales, published in New York by Charles Scribner's Sons for home dressmakers and students in domestic-science classes. The plates are small halftone and line diagrams of fabric pieces in flat grey tones — seams, plackets, hem facings, gore shapes and letter-keyed construction steps — useful as simple geometric shapes, stitch textures and instructional-diagram conventions.

Dressmaking · Costume · Textile industry and fabrics

Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0