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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The term heirloom sewing is for most of us associated with fine delicate garments that have the look and feel of eras past. This fascinating style of sewing can be used to replicate traditional heirloom garments from a previous century or may be used in innovative ways to create future heirlooms The combination of fabric embroidered insertion lace entredeux puffing and tucked panels result in creations of which dreams are made. French hand sewing as heirloom sewing was once known was worked entirely by hand with many long and loving hours invested to produce baby garments and christening gowns dresses blouses undergarments and household linens with which to fill a trousseau. With attention to detail you can duplicate these methods with your sewing machine and revisit more genteel times. Miraculously garments made with lace as fine as cobwebs have survived for centuries providing us with the opportunity to study and marvel over fine garments worn at the French courts and later made in the Victorian era when heirloom sewing was very fashionable. Heirloom sewing using fine laces delicate fabrics and couture techniques has maintained a popularity with many twentieth century designers. Within the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York we can be amazed by a 1939 evening gown by Madeleine Vionnet or a 1995 design by Karl Lagerfeld. Included in the A-Z of Heirloom Sewing are step-by-step instructions for these intriguing techniques both by machine and by hand. Heirloom sewing by hand or machine can be enjoyable and very rewarding and as you turn the pages 1 hope you will be inspired and develop a love of fine and gentle sewing creating your own heirlooms