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 home-sewing manual issued by the Butterick Publishing Company in New York in 1921, teaching stitches, cutting, fitting, mending and cleaning to women sewing for a whole household. The 184 figures are close-up halftones and line cuts of cloth in the hand: gathered edges, folded hems, basting threads and needles shown as dashed and dotted stitch lines against flat grounds.
