Household Sewing with Home Dressmaking by Bertha Banner

Author:Bertha Banner
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Longmans, Green, and co.
Published: 1898-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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fall successively upon one or two threads, but is more evenly distributed.

Plain Darns. —Where articles are actually worn into holes some method of darning must he adopted to fill such spaces so as to resemble the original weaving aa

nearly as posgible; plain, damask and stocking-web darns are usually adopted for this purpose. Plain darns are an iriiitation of ordinary weaving where no patterns are interwoven or printed; the warp threads are inserted first, a small margin of running darn being used round the edge of the hole to strengthen the surrounding fabric and also to hold the dam in its right position. The hole may either be left its natural shape or cut evenly into squares or oblongs; at any rate, all loose and frayed edges must be trimmed. The amount of running dam em-

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