Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 784
3SS3. 3884. … Ruffiers are used for makingruffles on fabric while the sameis being stitched, the ruffle be-ing gathered and the band sewedsimultaneously. This is done in two different ways. Fig. 3S80 shows a ruffler in operation. In thismethod the band to which the ruffler is to be sewed is passed throughthe…
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