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Textiles and clothing, by Kate Heintz Watson..

Watson, Kate Heintz, American School of Home Economics · 1907 · Chicago, American School of Home Economics · 107 pictures

A 1907 Chicago home-economics textbook by Kate Heintz Watson for the American School of Home Economics, teaching fabric study, sewing, and dressmaking to household students. Halftone photographs show cloth samples with worked stitches, seams, hems, hooks and eyes on tape, and cut garment pieces, giving designers coarse-screen grey textures and stitch diagrams usable as borders, rules, and repeating marks.

Textile industry · Sewing · Dressmaking

Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0