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 796
he sixth part of the size of the neck to be laid in a straight line above point c ofthe line for the front of the slope from f to c when cut gives one-third of the neck.—Second height of the shoulder. The half is taken and laid at the waist, g, near tothe measure of the line at the side to be taken… … Fig 35- S i Fig. 36. 744 Home Needlework. trace the lines between them for the pattern of the front of the body. This is donein the following manner :—A sloped line between the points, c, / and d, the slopeof the neck, a slanting line between the points /,h, for the width of the shoulder. A sloped…
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