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  2. Turnshoe - Wikipedia

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    Turnshoes can be made with basic sewing skills but no shoemaking experience, though practice, and using a broken-in, well-worn turnshoe as a pattern, improves fit. Historically, they were often initially roughly-cut, and fine cutting and fitting were done over wooden lasts ; modernly they are usually cut carefully to shape, then sewn without lasts.

  3. Houndstooth - Wikipedia

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    The duotone pattern is characterized by a tessellation of light and dark solid checks alternating with light-and-dark diagonally-striped checks—similar in pattern to gingham plaid but with diagonally-striped squares in place of gingham's blended-tone squares. Traditionally, houndstooth uses black and white, although other contrasting colour ...

  4. List of fabrics - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Fabrics in this list include fabrics that are woven, braided or knitted from textile fibres

  5. List of sewing stitches - Wikipedia

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    Slip stitch – form of blind stitch for fastening two pieces of fabric together from the right side without the thread showing; Stoating – used to join two pieces of woven material, such that the resulting stitches are not visible from the right side of the cloth; Straight stitch – the basic stitch in hand-sewing and embroidery

  6. Textile design - Wikipedia

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    Twentieth-Century Pattern Design, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2002. ISBN 1-56898-333-6; Jackson, Lesley. Shirley Craven and Hull Traders: Revolutionary Fabrics and Furniture 1957-1980, ACC Editions, 2009, ISBN 1-85149-608-4; Jenkins, David, ed. The Cambridge History of Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-521-34107-8

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  8. List of shoe styles - Wikipedia

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    Shoe designers have described a very large number of shoe styles, including the following: Leather ballet shoes, with feet shown in fifth position. A cantabrian albarca is a rustic wooden shoe in one piece, which has been used particularly by the peasants of Cantabria, northern Spain. [1] [2] A black derby shoe with a Goodyear welt and leather sole

  9. Xiuhuaxie - Wikipedia

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    Xiuhuaxie (Chinese: 绣花鞋; pinyin: xiùhuāxié; lit. 'embroidered shoes'), also known as Chinese shoes, [1] Chinese-style embroidered shoes, [1] and Chinese slippers, [2] are a well-known sub-type of traditional Chinese cloth shoes (中国布鞋; zhōngguó bùxié); the xiuhuaxie are deeply rooted in Chinese culture and are characterized by its use of elaborate and colourful Chinese ...