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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)

Butterick Publishing Company · New York [etc.] The Butterick Publishing Co · leaf 142

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rawing the needledown. (111. 322.) Do not use the point of theneedle, as it scratches and weakensthe material. Continue entirelyacross the gathers, putting theneedle under each stitch and hold-ing the plait firmly with thethumb. Stroke the materialabove the gathering thread aswell as below it to… … sliould be gathered twice so that the gathers willstay in the proper place. The second row is made with the stitchesdirectly in line with those of the first row and one-quarter or three-eighths of an inch below them.(111. 323.) If there is much fulness to be gath-ered, the spaces between the…

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