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 823
Home Needlework. 771 It is precisely this detail which forms the greatest difficulty in patching. Inorder to make the corners well it is necessary to keep to the straight thread for theseam, and when the notch is arrived at care must be taken to seize with the laststitch the last thread of the woof…
Home Economics · Interior decoration
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