I have a ca 1913 dress worn by my cousins' grandma (the one we don't
share!).
It is sheer eyelet/lawn and has several mends where the eyelets caught
on something and made L-shaped tears. They were mended beautifully by
hand and almost, but not quite, invisibly. Victorian methods survived
into the 20th century for a while, at least.
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On Jan 26, 2010, at 8:41 PM, Käthe Barrows wrote:
Question: are?there any historical ?references to this method in
other times?
Hippies didn't care if the mends showed, where Victorians/Edwardians
did. So earlier mends were as invisible as the craft of the
seamstress could produce. Dover republished a book called Victorian
Sewing Techniques (actually Edwardian c.1904) which shows some of
these techniques, as do other rarer sources.
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