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    Text Book of Swedish Home Sloyd - Typical Swedish Patterns of Hole Seam, Fringe Plaiting and Knitting
    Text Book of Swedish Home Sloyd - Typical Swedish Patterns of Hole Seam, Fringe Plaiting and Knitting
    Text Book of Swedish Home Sloyd - Typical Swedish Patterns of Hole Seam, Fringe Plaiting and Knitting
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    Text Book of Swedish Home Sloyd - Typical Swedish Patterns of Hole Seam, Fringe Plaiting and Knitting

    By Anna Berg

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    This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to Swedish sewing and needlework, with a special focus on transferring the skill to interior design. With interesting historical information simple, step-by-step instructions, “Text Book of Swedish Home Sloyd” will appeal to sewing enthusiast and those looking for inspiration within home decoration. Contents include: “Knitting”, “Introduction to Sewing and Needlework”, “Introduction”, “Holeseam”, “Halsom”, “Patterns”, “Fringe Plainting”, “Fransflatning”, and “Knitting”. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on knitting, sewing, and needlework.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateJan 26, 2016
    ISBN9781447498100
    Text Book of Swedish Home Sloyd - Typical Swedish Patterns of Hole Seam, Fringe Plaiting and Knitting

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      Text Book of Swedish Home Sloyd - Typical Swedish Patterns of Hole Seam, Fringe Plaiting and Knitting - Anna Berg

      Sweden

      HOLESEAM

      The Swedish holeseam is of ancient origin. Even in the 16th century the women’s dresses were trimmed with holeseam done by hand. It is surprising that our grandmothers’ eyes were not ruined from sewing on these finely woven materials. In the present day this type of holeseam is done on much coarser material.

      More and more to-day our homes are being decorated with such articles as curtains, table covers, cushions, etc., of linen embroidered with holeseam. Admiration for the wonders of machine-made things is beginning to disappear, and the more antique, solid patterns are being collected, appraised, and appreciated.

      COURSE OF INSTRUCTION

      The technique of the holeseam is of two different kinds—the firmly woven, or darned, or often called Swedish weaving, and the open. The woven holeseam or darning stitch is typical of certain provinces in Southern Sweden, but the open holeseam on the other hand is not characteristic of any particular place, but used all over Sweden.

      THE OPEN HOLESEAM

      Illustration 1—The drawing of the threads. Stretch the material in an embroidery hoop and work towards you.

      Illustration 2—When you begin to sew, fasten the first thread between the two threads in the material that are nearest the threads drawn out.

      Illustration 3—There is no particular rule for the number of threads in the weave (warpthreads) to be overcast; that depends entirely on the quality of the material. If the weave is fine, the holeseam must be sewed around a greater number of threads, if coarse, a smaller number of threads is used. If the pattern you are sewing on pulls or draws itself together, you can well understand that too few threads have been used, and if it

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