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 96
he upper edge should be gath-ered without turning it under (111. 176)and the raw edge should be co\eredwith a strip of seam-binding. (111. 176.)The lower edge of this seam-bindingshould be sewed to the hem but not tothe garment. Before sewing the top of the hem inplace slip a piece of muslin cut… … A Circular Hem with the Ld$eTurned Under garment during the pressing. The piece of muslinneed not be the full width or size of the gar-ment or hem. It can be a comparatively shortpiece and can be moved as the pressing is done.After the hem has been pressed in this manner,hem the upper edge of the…
Dressmaking · Sewing
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