Sewing for the Home

Sewing for the Home by Mary Brooks Picken. Published by Books Inc, New York, NY, April 1958. 2nd Edition 2nd Printing. Hardbound, Paper DJ. Size 4to (up to 12'' tall). Condition: Nr Fine in Chipped DJ. 210 Pgs. How to make fabric furnishings in a professional way. With illustrations by C Florence Valentine and Marie Sturve. This is a how book. You learn from it nearly 500 tricks of the Fabric Furnishings Trade. Directions are given for making glass curtains, cottage curtains, draperies, slip covers, bedspreads, dressing-table skirts, throws, pillows, cushions, pin cushions, rugs - even needlepoint, crocheting and knitting - to say nothing of small loom weaving and screen making. All are given in an explicit step-by-step method, and each difficult point is explained with drawings. Description text copyright 2006 www.BooksForComfort.net. Item ID 10710.