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Click to enlargeAuthentic Victorian Dressmaking Techniques

Kristina Harris
Our Price$12.95New!(Table of Contents)
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Format: Book
ISBN: 0486404854
Page Count: 144
Dimensions: 6 1/2 x 9 1/4
This vintage how-to manual — the first modern American sewing book — provided turn-of-the-century seamstresses with clear instructions for altering patterns, hand-sewing stitches, and creating shirt-blouses, skirts, wedding and evening gowns, coats, maternity wear, undergarments, children's clothing and other apparel. Also details lost arts like boning a bodice, creating bust enhancers, more.

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