The Complete Encyclopedia of Needlework by Therese de Dillmont
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0762413182/sr=1-1/qid=1139260769/ref=sr_1_1/103-0624918-7671817?%5Fencoding=UTF8
http://tinyurl.com/8hthw
I just read the chapter on mending the other day! My completely unexpert
opinion is that you would probably want to mend anything smaller than an inch
or so and patch anything larger than that.
Tea Rose
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Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 09:32:04 -0400
From: "kelly grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Very cool about the moths! my friend Griet would love to have had that
happen to her clothing!
I could see a mixture of repair styles done, as long as then were done
cleanly, to the best of you ability. Mended clothes were a good think, as
they were so expensive in the first place, not at all like today. Even just
a few decades ago, a little thing like a hole in your tuxedo jacket went to
the menders to be darned or rewoven.
They would take a piece of matching cloth and fray the four edges so that
you had a solid piece in the centre that was the size of the hole, and
frayed thread ends to weave back into the cloth.
Therese de Dillmont's book on hand work shows great examples of how to do
this kind of mending. I can't exactly remember the title of the book, and
it's at home...sorry.
BTW, can I send you a riding habit to hang out in your attic for a
while???;->
Kelly in Nova Scotia
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