The new dressmaker; with complete and fully illustrated instructions on every point connected with sewing, dressmaking and tailoring, from the actual stitches to the cutting, making, altering, mending, and cleaning of clothes for ladies, misses, girls, children, infants, men and boys (1921)
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r 25,page 119) or finished with tiny hems. Messaline and crepe de Chine can be frayed, picoted or hemmed. Chiffon may have its edges picoted, or rolled, and whipped tightly with fine stitches inthe same or contrasting color. (Chapter 25. page 123.) Net may be picoted, hemmed with a same or… … 111.321 over-and-over stitch, using Xo. 150cotton;the joining can scarcely be detected. Ifthis is not practical for the net you areusing, malce a plain seam and trim the edgesdown to within one-eighth of an inch of thestitching. Roll the seam edges down tothe stitching and whip them closely.…
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