Fryer MARY FRANCES SEWING BOOK hb dj patterns 1997 EC

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Jane Eayre Fryer. Illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer. THE MARY FRANCES SEWING BOOK: or Adventures Among the Thimble People . Berkeley, CA: LACIS Publications, 1997. Apparent first printing (NAP). Octavo, hardbound in navy cloth-covered boards with gilt titles; illustrated endpapers, original pictorial dust jacket. With four full-page color plates and profusely illustrated in text with duotone drawings. Includes paper pouch on back board containing ten 12 x 18" folded patterns for doll clothing. 280pp. Not common.Reprint of a work originally published in 1913 and followed up for a similar undated work. This edition combines the two and includes all the beautiful plates and drawings.This is a beautifully illustrated fun book with the serious intent of teaching young girls how to sew. The stories, anecdotes, and adventures (involving fairies, Tommy Pincushion, birdies, and a loving mother) each involve a sewing technique, and by the end of the book a girl would have learned most of the basics: gathering, basting, hemming, ornamental and embroidery stitching, working with patterns, matching patterned cloth, pinning, French seams, eyelet loops, darning, patching, buttonholes, interfaces, plackets, waist bands, felling, ruffling, tucks, fitting, and on and on. The original publication had tissue patterns, but this reprint has patterns printed read more

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