Shortcuts to Easier Sewing, Circular 399

Series

Circular

Collection name

NMSU Cooperative Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station Publications, 1889-Present

Date

1967-04

Decade

1960s

Author

Foulds, Joyce

Subject (LCSH)

Tailoring

Subject (NALT)

clothing construction

Table of contents

Work habits and attitudes

Sewing equipment and tools

Lighting

Extra light for hand sewing

Extra light at the sewing machine

Plus lighting

Plan space

An ideal sewing center

Space for a center

Designs

Selection of fabrics

Selection of patterns

Cutting and marking

Sewing

Staystitching

Buttonhole twist

Lockstitch threads

Handling threaded needle

Easing fullness

Basting

Pressing

Understitching

Anchoring facings

Clean finish facings

Interfacings

Quick seam finishes

Quick tailored collar

Making points

Linings

Machine hemming

Buttonholes

Machine-made eyelets

Loops

Setting in a sleeve

Extent

20 pages

Notes

Circular containing general information on sewing and detailed instructions for stitches and tasks commonly used in tailoring

Original publisher

New Mexico State University

Cooperative Extension Service

Place of publication

Las Cruces (N.M.)

Frequency

frequency varies

Digital publisher

New Mexico State University Library

Source

NMSU College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences (ACES)

Language

English

Type

Text

Format

application/pdf

Medium (AAT)

newsletters

Genre (AAT)

periodicals

Access rights

Open to re-use

Metadata cataloger

Schneider, Ingrid

Roth, Michael

Digital identifier

UAAPc000399.pdf