Textiles and Sewing Materials: Textiles, Laces, Embroideries and Findings, Shopping Hints, Mending, Household Sewing, Trade and Sewing Terms
by Picken, Mary Brooks
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Hygiene, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Scranton, PA.: International Textbook Company, 1923. Classic comprehensive reference text presents detailed topics dealing with historical information, descriptions and uses of laces, textiles, embroideries, dress findings, and showing their values, purposes, and uses in dressmaking work. Detailed illustrations and instruction are given for the mending of practical everyday garments; household sewing, including the making of draperies, bed coverings, scarfs, art needlework, and miscellaneous items. Includes a dictionary of trade and sewing terms. 285 pgs. Illustrated. Gilt spine. Prior owner's small name label on front endpaper. Light age browning to endpapers. Corners and spine edges slightly rubbed. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- GlobalAcademics
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- QN-7
- Title
- Textiles and Sewing Materials: Textiles, Laces, Embroideries and Findings, Shopping Hints, Mending, Household Sewing, Trade and Sewing Terms
- Author
- Picken, Mary Brooks
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- International Textbook Company
- Place of Publication
- Scranton, PA.
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- Textiles, Fabric, Sewing, Embroidery, Handicrafts, Linens, Manufacturing, Industry, Wool, Silk, Cotton, Weaving, Design, Art, Needlepoint, Lace, Upholstery, Knitting, Quilts, Dressmaking, Tailors, Domestics, History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Quilting/Needlework;
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Hygiene, Colorado
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