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Cloth and thick materials are often finished by being turned over and stitched down. If hand-stitched, this kind of hem need not be tacked, but for sewing machine
work
it is
best to do so.
Fig.
Few stitched
hem
is
finishes for
7.
llemmmg.
muslin dresses are prettier than the
hem.
For children's dresses, the stitched often worked with a silk contrasting in color,
which gives the
effect
of a Russia braid.
Tarlatan ball
dress flounces, stitched with white, or with colored silk,
look admirably, and are thus trimmed at
Fig.
Another mode
of
8.
Stitched
trifling
expense.
Hem.
hemming used by dressmakers
is
by French modistes "half hem," and is used for keeping up the lining of dresses in position the stitches are taken very far apart, and the needle is inserted slanting so as to take up the least piece at a time, in order not to show on the right side. This is easy enough on thick fabrics, as cloth, serge, rep, and poplin, but very difficult on thick silk, when, as it is not possible to preserve the called
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