id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt coo.31924094663881 Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences. Sewing materials : textiles, laces, embroideries and findings, shopping hints, mending, household sewing, trade and sewing terms 1923 .txt text/plain 78921 6670 82 Often, double-cloth materials are held together by means of catching an occasional weft thread through to the opposite surface, other materials, they may be designated as lace weaves. definitely whether a given fabric is cotton or linen consists in placing a sample in a strong solution of washing soda. 3. Whether made by hand or by machinery, lace is an openwork fabric or network of linen, silk, cotton, or similar threads made In the making of needle-point lace, the design is drawn on parchment, which is kept straight by being stitched to heavy linen. needle-point edge is, in effect, applied to many kinds of machineand hand-made laces. The fine weaves of this lace are suitable as dress trimmings, and term is generally applied to machine-made cotton lace resembling opposite side, and sew the seam edges together with fine overhanding-stitches, using for this purpose silk thread that matches the ./cache/coo.31924094663881.pdf ./txt/coo.31924094663881.txt