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Showing posts with label Fiber Arts. Show all posts
A Guide To Vintage Pattern Terminology
If you are considering sewing with vintage patterns, then you will definitely want to learn the terminology. Vintage patterns come with vintage terminology, not all of which may be familiar. Here are some of the terms you might encounter.
1. Continuous Lap: A strip of fabric cut on the straight grain and used to face edges of an opening or slit in a garment.
2. Jabot: A ruffle or cravat-like accent attached to the front of a dress or blouse.
3. Lapped Seam: A seam in which one seam allowance edge is lapped over the seam allowance of its joining piece and stitched.
4. Pin tuck: Very small tucks stitched just a pin's width from the fold to slightly shape a garment piece. In the late 1920's, a series of pin tucks were often applied across the naural waistline of a frock for shaping and detail.
5. Plaits: An array of narrow (known today as "knife") pleats often applied at the hem of a dress, the ends of sleeves, or around the neck opening.
6. Shirring: Three or more rows of gathers made by small running stitches in parallel lines. The rows are spaced as desired.
7. Slide Fastener: The original term for zippers.
8. True Bias: Fabric that is cut at a precise 45-degree angle to the fabric grain line.
9. Toile: The French term for fabric pattern. Originally pertained to the muslin test garment.
Today, with the help of the internet and the popularity of all things vintage, it's easier than every to acquire vintage patterns. Sewing with the real-deal pattern in its original form is a great experience and a fun way to re-create those wonderful designs from the past. I hope the above glossary of terms will help you easily navigate the world of vintage patterns.
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Joyce Boulan is the owner of a website devoted to vintage sewing. You can search for vintage patterns, antique buttons, antique sewing machines and much more. Please visit: http://www.vintagesewingshop.com
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How to Gather: a basic sewing tutorial
Gathering is a technique used in many sewing patterns for such areas as sleeves, ruffles, and waistbands. This video tutorial teaches you the basics of gathering using a sewing machine.
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If You Want To Learn How To Sew Dress Clothes
Whether these are for you to wear or for you to sell, there is a lot to learn when it comes to wanting to know how to sew dress clothes. But once you get the hang of things there is no doubt that you will feel that the skill was a pretty easy one to master. Before you know it, with enough practice, you will be able to teach other people how to sew dress clothes. With the skill you learn you will not only be able to make money from selling your clothes but by also teaching other people how to sew dress clothes.
Getting The Extra Advantage
Once you have mastered the art of sewing and you are moving on to the bigger and better projects, it is important to know that there are a lot of tools out there that you could be making use of. There are a lot of patterns and templates that could help you in learning how to sew dress clothes. Some patterns are ones that are only good for one time and the others are reusable. The reusable patterns are generally the ones you would want to go with because they would be the best value for your money. You certainly never know when you would want to reuse them.
In the end, once you have your own skill, pattern, and schedule set you will be able to turn out a lot of different kinds of dress clothes. And make sure that you save a lot of the stuff that helped you learn how to sew dress clothes because you can use those items when you start teaching other people. Even if you decide not to teach other people, you may decide you want to give them away to someone or even resell them in order to make back some of your money.
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