Mental development and manual training combined, taking up the one stitch dropped in sewing by drills to sound-singing (1899)
Dunham, Mary Elizabeth. [from old catalog] · Philadelphia, Columbia book co. · leaf 39
eam. From overhanding we make overseaming for sewing eitherselvage or turned edges, and stitches larger than for overseamingfor overcasting raw edges to keep them from raveling ; have theseams basted and then overcast the edges before sewing them.A hem is used to strengthen the edge of a garment or… … the hem. Hold it firmly betweenthe thumb and first finger of theleft hand, at the same time holdthe hem where the stitches are tobe taken to fasten it to-the foun-dation cloth around the first fin-ger nail, then put the needle pointthrough the foundation materialclose to the first turned edge ofthe…
Sewing schools · Manual training
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