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Excerpt from Studies in Plain Needlework and Amateur Dressmaking: Illustrated, Especially Adapted to Use in Schools and Families
Individual the artist, the science consisting in the combined experience of the most suc cessful dressmakers of past and present time. To avail herself of the benefits of science, the seamstress must be a regular subscriber and diligent reader of the best books bearing upon her business. Any new invention, in tended to perfect or simplify her work, should be investigated. The sewing room should contain the best scientific helps to be obtained, and, with a proper attention to her business affairs, success must attend her efforts. Whenever practicable, a sewing room should be devoted to sewing alone. It is especially disagreeable to sew'in a dining or a general living room, as many of the conveniences necessary to sewing are not adapted to such a room, and there is also some dan ger of the work becoming soiled. A smooth ingrain car pet is more easily kept clean than any other, and to' that reason should cover the sewing room ?oor. Select a light-running sewing machine, which takes a straight and uniform stitch. Keep the machine well oiled, and perfectly clean. A mirror should be placed near the window. The cutting-table should be long and smooth, without leaves, and unvarnished. Mark the scale of inches on table from left to right, corresponding exactly with the tape line. A small folding table is more con venient than a lap board for basting linings to goods and for trimming skirts. An adjustable dress-figure is a great convenience, saving the time of the sewing girls occupied in the hanging of skirts and in draping. The sewing chairs should be low and comfortable, without arms or rockers. A stand work basket for spools, a pin.
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