Originally published in the 1940s, this book explains how to make good clothing simply and clearly with pictures and a minimum of text. It is full of great, easy-to-follow sewing advice about home dressmaking.
Contents Covered:
- Foreword
- Sewing Equipment and Fabrics
- Thread, Needle and Stitch Guide
- The Room in Which You Sew
- Equipment for Dressmaking
- Small Equipment for Sewing
- Ironing Boards for Dressmaking
- Make Your Own Pressing Forms
- How to Pad a Dress Form
- Other Equipment and Sewing Aids
- Extra Equipment and Notions
- Burning Test for Fabrics
- Cotton and Linen
- Wool and Silk
- Characteristics of Rayon
- Six Standard Fabric Weaves
- Colors and Lines for Your Style Type
- Your Colors in a Star
- The Right Make-up for Your Type
- Colors That Make the Skin Clear
- Trace and Cut This Color Finder
- Colors That Brighten the Eyes
- The Right Colors for Your Hair
- Color Combinations
- Make a Silhouette of Your Figure
- The Tall Thin Figure
- Figure with Wide Hips
- Figure with Large Bust
- Figure with Large Waist
- How to Design Costumes with a Basic Pattern
- How to Change Darts
- Adding a Lapped Closing
- Collars for a Basic Pattern
- Adding a Yoke and Fullness
- How to Shorten a Sleeve
- Adding Sleeve Top Fullness
- Adding Flare to a Sleeve
- Skirt Pattern Adaptations
- The Fundamentals of Hand and Machine Sewing
- Knots and Fastening Stitches
- Basting Stitches
- Machine Stitching
- Use Your Hands Skillfully
- Running Stitches and Back Stitches
- Overhandling, Overcasting and Whipstitches
- Five Ways to Sew Hems
- More about Slip-Stitching
- Fitting Problems and Pattern Adjustments
- How to Take Measurements
- Your Measurement Record
- Length Adjustments in a Pattern
- Adjustments for Skirt Patterns
- Sleeve Pattern Adjustments
- Patterns for Slacks and Panties
- Fitting Methods
- About Fitting Sleeves
- Altering from the Right Side
- If the Pattern is Not Adjusted
- When Shoulders Are Narrow
- Large Bust and Narrow Shoulders
- When Shoulders Are Broad
- If Shoulders Are Square
- Sloping Shoulders
- Shoulders High Near the Neck
- When the Bust Is High
- If the Chest Is Flat
- Figure with Large Waistline
- If the Back Is Broad
- Figure with Narrow Back
- The Round-Shouldered Figure
- The Over-Erect Figure
- Fitting Skirts
- Marking a Skirt Length
- Patterns, Cutting and Garment Construction
- The Grain of the Fabric
- Know Your Pattern
- Cutting Special Fabrics
- Cutting and Basting
- Making Markings with Thread
- Other Ways to Mark and Cut
- Press as You Sew
- More about Pressing
- Make Darts First
- Stitch and Press Darts Carefully
- Gathers and Shirrings
- Seams with Fullness
- Plain Seams, Straight or Curved
- Other Dressmaker Seams
- French Seams and Hemmed Seams
- How to Make Felled Seams
- Some Tailored Seams
- How to Avoid Stretched Seams
- Setting in Sleeves
- Stiffening and Padding
- Seams for Transparent Materials
- Piped and Other Accented Seams
- Flannel Seams Have Many Uses
- Shirring, Ruffles, Tucks, Pleats and Hems
- More about Shirring
- Corded Shirring
- Ways to Apply Ruffles
- Godets and Circular Flounces
- Things to Know about Tucks
- Five Ways to Trim with Tucks
- Common Types of Pleats
- Laying and Pressing Pleats
- Seam Line and Set-in Pleats
- How to Prepare a Skirt Hem
- Ways to Sew Skirt Hems
- Narrow Hems Used in Dressmaking
- Hemming Corners
- Machine Hemstitching and Picoting
- Some Special Purpose Hems
- Cutting and Joining Bias Strips
- Some Bias Facings
- Fitted Facings
- Facing Scallops and a Slit
- Hand-Finished Bindings
- Some Bias Tape Bindings
- Binding Corners and Scrolls
- Making Piped Edges
- Plackets, Necklines, Collars and Sleeves
- Placket with Continuous Finish
- Two-Piece Placket for a Skirt
- Placket for a Skirt with Belting
- A Zipper for a Skirt Placket
- A Seam Placket in a Dress
- A Zipper in a Dress Placket
- A Zipper for a Coat or Jacket
- The So-Called Underwear Placket
- Hemmed Placket for Infants' Wear
- Facing a Round Neckline
- Facing a Plain V Neckline
- Neck Binding and Seam Openings
- Facing a Convertible Neckline
- A Zipper in a Faced Opening
- Binding for a Slashed Opening
- Placket Opening for a Neckline
- Would You Do It This Way?
- Two Convertible Collar Finishes
- Quick Way to Make Notch Collars
- Tailors' Method for Notch Collars
- Finishes for Tight Sleeves
- Sleeve Bands and Cuffs
- Shirt Cuff and Opening
- Buttons, Buttonholes and Fasteners
- Things to Know about Buttons
- How to Sew on Buttons
- Covering Button Molds
- Buckles and Worked Eyelets
- Snaps and Hooks and Eyes
- Covered Cords and Tubings
- Frogs and Fabric Fasteners
- Heavy Frogs of Knotted Cord
- Five Types of Loop Buttonholes
- Worked Buttonholes
- Piped Buttonholes
- Self-Finish Bound Buttonholes
- Welt Type of Bound Buttonholes
- Tape-Bound Buttonholes
- Making Ten Types of Pockets
- Pocket with Braid or Tape Binding
- Pocket Bound with Pocket Piece
- Pocket with Separate Binding
- Making a Welt Pocket
- Pocket with Separate Welt Piece
- Making a Stand Pocket
- Making a Flap Pocket
- Curved Bound Pocket
- Making Belts, Trimmings and Finishes
- Three Belts with Stiffening
- Covered Weights and French Tacks
- Cable Cord and the Cording Foot
- More Corded Finishes
- Braiding and Pattern Duplication
- Braid Applied by Machine
- Machine Craft Trimming
- Openwork Trimmings
- Variety in Fabric Trimmings
- Some Fabric Edge Trimmings
- Roses of Silk and Velvet
- A Quickly Made Ribbon Flower
- Ways to Make Fringe
- Tassels and Tied Fringe
- Twisted Cords and Pompons
- Quilting as Trimming
- Making Tailor's Tacks
- Embroidered Arrowhead
- Tricks to Know about Lace
- Applying Lace by Hand
- Sharp Corners and Curves
- Ways to Finish Edges of Lace
- Seams Made with Entre Deux
- Applying Embroidery Edgings
- Decorative Stitches Used for Garment Trimmings
- Six Ways to Do Featherstitching
- Herringbone and Other Stitches
- Interlaced Stitches
- Ways to Make Chain Stitches
- Variations of Blanket Stitching
- Cross-Stitch and Canvas Stitches
- Knotted Stitches Have Many Uses
- Some Embroidered Flower Stitches
- Embroidering Eyelets and Scallops
- Three Fagoted Seams
- Fagoting Bias Tape
- Smocking over Gathers
- Ways to Do Honeycomb Smocking
- How to Do Hand Hemstitching
- Methods Used for Appliqué Work
- Making a Tailored Coat and Handling Fur
- Facing Fronts and Collar
- Finishing and Interlining
- Lining a Coat
- Cutting and Sewing Fur
- Taping, Padding and Lining Fur
- Remodeling, Repairing and the Care of Clothing
- A Jacket from a Man's Coat
- Changing Length and Combining Materials
- Worthwhile Remodeling Combinations
- Make-overs for Children
- Piecings Accented and Unaccented
- Renovating Old Fabrics
- Reinforcing Old Fur
- Gloves, Shields and Elastics
- Caring for Clothing
- Torn-off Buttons and Pulled Seams
- Repairing a Coat Lining
- Mending Runs and Dropped Threads
- Mending Shirt Collars and Cuffs
- Darning a Hole or a Worn Spot
- How to Darn a Straight Tear
- Making a Hemmed Patch
- Overhand and Catch-Stitched Patches
- Machine Mending Has Many Uses
- Mending with Adhesives
- How to Make a Drawn-in Patch
- A Dictionary of More than 250 Fabrics and Fabric Terms
- Index
| Format: | PDF Digital Reprint, e-Facsimile |
| No. of Pages: | 254 |
| Page Size: | A4 (210mm × 297mm) |
| Download Size: | 99.1 MB |
