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Textiles and clothing, by Kate Heintz Watson

Watson, Kate Heintz, American School of Home Economics · 1914 · Chicago, American School of Home Economics · 105 pictures

A 1914 home-economics textbook by Kate Heintz Watson, issued in Chicago by the American School of Home Economics to teach sewing, fabric selection, and dressmaking to household students. Halftone photographs of cloth samples show hemstitching, drawn-thread bands, patched and darned squares, and threaded needles, alongside line diagrams of stitch paths labelled a through f; useful for stitch textures, repeating thread patterns, and simple instructional diagram marks.

Textile fabrics · Sewing · Dressmaking

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