Technology
The teacher's preparation for the lesson consists in doing each exercise before presenting the lesson to the class. It will take some of your time to do so, but it will save hours of time and much worry in the end, and you will thus discover how best to present the difficult p...
1. Basting. 2. Blind Stitch. 3. Buttonholes. 4. Combination Stitch. 5. Darning. 6. Gathering. 7. Half-back Stitch. 8. Hemming. 9. Overcasting. 10. Overhanding. 11. Running. 12....
22. CHAPTER VIII.3. The hard or leaf fibers, including manila, sisal, istle and the New Zealand fibers, all having rather stiff woody fibers, one to ten feet long, are obtained from the leaf or...
27. CHAPTER XII.Basketry is one of the oldest handicrafts known to man, but it reached its greatest excellence with the tribes of American Indians who wove baskets from the grasses, reeds and r...
24. CHAPTER X.Fold the cloth through the center with the warp and cut on the fold. Fold both strips into three equal pieces with the woof, and cut. Fold each piece through the center parallel...
19. d. To sew the gusset in, place the apex of the=Putting in Sleeves.=--After trimming the arm hole, measure one inch back from the shoulder seam and mark with a pin. Fold the garment at the arm hole with this pin at the top o...
9. CHAPTER VI.Putting a ruffle into a hem-tuck and tucking: Measure up from the bottom two and one-fourth inches--or twice the width of the hem-tuck plus one-fourth inch for the seam--and cre...
8. CHAPTER V.The cardboard is a substitute for the darning ball. Do not stretch the cloth too tightly over the card, nor put in a needless number of stitches at the back to hold it on, five...
5. CHAPTER III.Five exercises of the Second Year Sewing will consist of seam work on the Seam Sampler. _Each stitch will be first taught on the Practice Piece._ Make pupils perfectly familiar...
6. CHAPTER IV.It is desirable that each girl cut the two patches and the two pieces to be patched from the same piece of cloth, that there may be no difficulty in matching the pattern, when p...
3. CHAPTER I.The teacher's preparation for the lesson consists in doing each exercise before presenting the lesson to the class. It will take some of your time to do so, but it will save hou...
4. CHAPTER II.Beginning at the right hand follow the lines of the design with the thread, placing the knots over the dots on the right hand side and fastening over the dots at the left. Under...
7. d. Maps upon which can be located the countries[21] The round holder and case may be substituted for the basketry, or a blank book with paper cover or the folding envelope case may be made instead. See "Paper, Cloth and Card...
23. CHAPTER IX.Art education should bring to every girl a greater appreciation of beauty and a sufficient knowledge to enable her to beautify her home and to dress herself becomingly. This is...
11. c. To join two bias strips--Cut the ends to bejoined straight with the threads of the cloth and place the right sides together, slipping the top piece past the under piece the width of a seam, but having the top edges even....
25. CHAPTER XI.Bright, clean, tasteful and well regulated homes will add more to the sum of human happiness than anything else in life. A happy home does not always mean a costly one. The simp...
15. i. As the right side is to be hemmed down as afacing, it is desirable to cut out one thickness of the cloth, leaving, of course, the quarter-inch inside the long crease, and also at the cross fold, at the end of the opening...
17. d. The long facing is a continuous facing, the21. d. Turn a narrow fold on one piece to the right=Tucking.=--Crease the first tuck where desired. For the second tuck measure from the first and allow twice the width of the tuck plus the desired space between. Repeat for the...
14. i. At the top of the opening fold the right-handThe left side of the facing will consist of an extension hem the same as in Placket A, the only difference in the plackets being the manner of finishing the right side or top fa...
26. d. Color of shades and curtains that the outside may present aa. Sweeping. b. Dusting. c. Care of bare floors. d. Window washing. e. Dish washing. f. Care of cupboards. g. Care of book-shelves, daily papers, magazines, etc. h. Care of slee...
13. d. Baste the facing to the cloth down one side and18. c. Cut a piece of cloth one and one-half inchessquare. On this square fold down one corner three-fourths of an inch on the sides and cut it off. Turn a fold one-eighth of an inch all around this piece. Place the corner which...
16. c. Place the long facing to the back of this sameside with the right side of facing to the wrong side of the cloth, thus having the three thicknesses of cloth together. Pin in place and baste a quarter of an inch from the edge...
12. c. Slip this between the folds of the cloth sothat the fold of the facing will just come to the end of the opening. This will bring the right side of facing to the right side of the cloth.
20. c. Sew the lace right sides together, in a narrow1. CHAPTER I.--SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS 72. CHAPTER XII.--BASKETRY 114