Woman's Institute Library of Dressmaking
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A 1923 textbook from the Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences (Scranton, PA), serving as a reference volume in its dressmaking series. It covers the development of textiles (spinning, weaving, knitting, finishing, dyeing and printing) and chapters on cotton, linen, wool and silk, with tables of fabrics giving weave, width, price and use. A long chapter on laces describes hand-made and machine-made varieties with photographs, followed by embroideries and findings, mending (darning, patching, stocking repair), household sewing (linens, curtains, bedspreads, cushions) and an illustrated dictionary of trade and sewing terms with an index.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- 1923
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 291
- Archive notes
- Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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