Those remind me greatly of the stitch used in "pattern darning" Of an Icelandic altar-cloth (charted by Carol... hmm; I'll find it if anybody really needs to know); which I also saw taught/demonstrated at a Pennsic class on hand sewing as a technique to repair small rips: up through the cloth beside the rip, down thru the cut and up again on the other side- repeat for a bit of a figure 8 pattern. Works really well too! Betsy
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 7:11 PM To: h-costume@mail.indra.com Subject: [h-cost] fine drawing samples I don't know if this helps with the definition you're looking for or not, but here are two samples of "fine drawing" from Woolman's "Sewing Course," c1900, where it's used to patch damask. It was also used on heavy cloth as the stitches could be hidden in the material. It's different from seaming, but it does join two pieces butted together without overlap the way seaming does. http://www.hollisandbell.com/Cat7706/finedrawing01.jpg http://www.hollisandbell.com/Cat7706/finedrawing03.jpg The dotted piece is about 2.5 cm and the fringed one just over 3 cm. I have a brief description and illustration of it in my book, "Plain Needlework - A Guide to Nineteenth Century Hand Sewing." http://hollisandbell.com/ Melissa Roberts --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
