About fabrics and patterns : no. 1, lessons 1 and 2
Adventures in dress design
Bastings, seams and slashes, no. 4, lesson 5
Changing pattern sizes
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Textual Record
- Call Number
- 646.4 AMA
- Author
- Amazon Drygoods
- Place of Publication
- Davenport, Ia.
- Publisher
- Amazon Drygoods
- Publication Date
- c1991
- Physical Description
- 16 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
- Inscription
- "Burnaby Village Museum COPY #2", handwritten and stamped in ink on first page.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Dressmaking
- Clothing and dress
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The Delineator
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Textual Record
- Call Number
- 391 DEL
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Butterick Publishing Co.
- Publication Date
- c1911
- Physical Description
- 262 p. : ill ; 42 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Dressmaking
- Needlework
- Millinery
- Periodicals
- Notes
- "Fifteen cents a copy"
- "One dollar a year"
- Oversized
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The designer, vol. xxiii, no. 5
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
Fitting : buttonholes and pockets : no. 3, lesson 4
Hems, belts and finishes : no. 7, lesson 8
How to make dresses the modern Singer way
The Mary Brooks Picken method of modern dressmaking
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV990.1.2
- Call Number
- 646.43 PIC
- Author
- Picken, Mary Brooks, 1886-1981
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- The Pictorial Review Co.
- Publication Date
- c1925
- Physical Description
- 96 p. : ill. : 29 cm.
- Inscription
- "Helen Blair" [Handwritten twice in black ink on front endpaper]
"Helen Blair
Class II" [Handwritten in pencil on front endpaper]
"Helen Blair
Fernie, B. C.
1929" [Handwritten in black ink on front endpaper]
Scribbles on front endpaper.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Dressmaking
- Textiles
- Sewing
- Object History
- Object purchased, along with a sign stand, from Jim Wolf. No information gathered as to where Jim obtained the items.
- Notes
- Includes index.
Less detail
The Mary Brooks Picken method of modern dressmaking
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Textual Record
- Call Number
- 646.4 PIC COPY 1
- Author
- Picken, Mary Brooks, 1886-1981
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- The Pictorial Review Company
- Publication Date
- c1925
- Physical Description
- 96 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
- Inscription
- "copy 1", handwritten in pencil on title page.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Dressmaking
- Notes
- Includes index.
- 2 copies held: copy 1.
Less detail
New Idea woman's magazine vol. XVIII, no. 2
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Textual Record
- Accession Code
- HV973.133.2
- Call Number
- 391.205 NEW
- Place of Publication
- New York City
- Publisher
- New Idea Pub. Co.
- Publication Date
- 1908
- Series
- New Idea woman's magazine
- Physical Description
- 4-62 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Fashion
- Dressmaking
- Periodicals
- Notes
- "50 cents per year in U.S.A., Alaska, Cuba, Porto Rico, Mexico, Hawaii, Philippines, Panama, Guam, Tutulia, and the City of Shanghai; in Canada, 75 cents per year; all others, $1 per year" --Cover.
- "August - 1908" --Cover.
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Pattern layout, cutting and marking : no. 2, lesson 3
Seam finishings, necklines and joinings : no. 5, lesson 6