Designing and planning clothes : the principles of design illustrated and explained in their practical application to correct dress for all types
Designing with foundation patterns
Draping and designing with scissors and cloth : details and instructions for the creating and developing of garments from cloth without patterns
Dress construction and finishing
Dress decoration and ornament : illustrations, instruction, ideas, and suggestions for the right application of decoration and ornament to dress
American dress pattern catalogs, 1873-1909 : four complete reprints
Children and misses' garments
Essential stitches and seams
Tight linings and boning
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV007.6.10
- Call Number
- 646 WOM
- Author
- Picken, Mary Brooks, 1886-1981
- Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
- Place of Publication
- Scranton, Pa.
- Publisher
- Education Corp. General
- Publication Date
- 1923
- c1915
- Physical Description
- 43 p. : ill. : 23 cm.
- Inscription
- "This instruction book is not included in your course of study, but is sent to show you just how to prepare your dress form for use. You will not be asked to report on this book." [Typed in purple ink and pasted to first page]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Dressmaking
- Sewing
- Linings (Sewing)
- Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts - Booklets
- Object History
- Home sewing course used by Burnaby residents in the 1920's
- Notes
- "Department of sewing" -- cover
- "Instruction paper with examination questions ; 5-2" -- Cover
- "This lesson is optional. You are not required to report on it unless you so desire. However, you are urged to study it diligently, to apply the instruction contained in it, and to answer the Examination Questions for your own satisfaction." -- Cover
Less detail
Tissue-paper patterns, part 1
Tissue-paper patterns, part 2
Care of clothing : home laundering, dry cleaning, dyeing, remodeling, the upkeep of clothes, the budget