Craft, Trades & Making · Textile & Fibre Crafts
A topic within Textile & Fibre Crafts, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Craft, Trades & Making.
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A Lady
Gives cutting-out instructions by measured pattern for a household's whole wardrobe, aimed at women with no dressmaker's training who nonetheless had to clothe a family or a parish's poor.
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Sequences hand and machine sewing instruction as a graded series of exercises building toward a finished garment, arguing that technique taught apart from a real project does not transfer to one.
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