1916 Woman's Institute Tailored Buttonholes and Buttons Sewing Course Book No. 16
Original 1916 Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts & Sciences Sewing Course Book No. 16: Tailored Buttonholes and Buttons.
This specialized tailoring manual teaches the fine details that separate ordinary garment construction from professional dressmaking. Mary Brooks Picken emphasizes precision workmanship, explaining that well-made buttonholes are both functional and decorative elements of tailored clothing.
Topics covered include:
- Tailored buttonholes
- Position and types of buttonholes
- Making perfect buttonholes
- Buttonhole cutters
- Buttonhole scissors and punches
- Buttonhole gimp
- Stranding thread
- Buttonhole thread
- Thimbles and needles for buttonholes
- Stiletto (awl) for buttonholes
- Making a tailored buttonhole
- Simulated buttonholes
- Material-bound buttonholes
- Braid-bound buttonholes
- Buttons for strictly tailored garments
- Self-covered buttons
- Decorative crowfeet and arrowhead finishes
- Covering cord for frogs and ornamental trimmings
- Chinese knots
- Lover's knot
- Making tassels
Illustrated throughout with detailed instructional drawings demonstrating professional tailoring tools, button styles, buttonhole construction, decorative knotwork, and garment finishing techniques.
A wonderful reference for vintage sewing enthusiasts, historical costumers, fashion students, tailoring collectors, and anyone interested in early twentieth-century garment construction.
Published by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts & Sciences, Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Condition: Please review all photographs carefully, as they are considered part of the description. This is an original vintage correspondence course booklet and shows normal age-related wear.
