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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 817

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or rather thefolded edges, of two pieces of stuff are joined together; the stitch is madeslantingly in the opposite side to that which is held towards the worker. 1360. SEWING STITCH, H.—This is employed to join two edges of 764 Home Needlework. material. The needle directed over the edges,… … Fig. 62. familiarly called serving a seam. Great regularity is required for the stitches of suchseams 1361. OVER CASTING OR OVERSEWING.—Oversewing is sewing with Home Needlework, 765

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