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Beeton's housewife's treasury of domestic information : comprising complete and practical instructions on the house and its furniture, artistic decoration economy, toilet, children, etiquette, domestic and fancy needlework, dressmaking and millinery, and all other household matters : with every requisite direction to secure the comfort, elegance, and prosperity of the home : a companion volume to "Mrs. Beeton's book of household management" : profusely illustrated (1879)

Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865 · London ; New York : Ward, Lock & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C. · leaf 768

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titches. The neck is then folded down to be hemmed to the Home Needlework. 715 depth of an inch ; a hem thus made would have some gathers, andwould not set well at the corners. To avoid this little inconvenience, four little gussets ought to be cut and fixed inthe four corners of the neck, where… … sets the neck can be made either round or square, according to whether the top ofthe gusset is turned towards the top or the bottom of the places made to receive it.In the former the neck becomes square, in the latter round. The hem made, itwill serve as a running. For this two holes must be…

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