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2. Rickrack - Wikipedia

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   Rickrack is a flat piece of braided trim, shaped like a zigzag. It is used as a decorative element in clothes or curtains. [2] Before the prevalence of sewing machines and overlockers, rickrack was used to provide a finished edge to fabric, [3] and its popularity was in part due to its sturdiness and ability to stand up to harsh washing ...

3. Trim (sewing) - Wikipedia

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   Elaborate gold metallic lace trim c. 1760–65. Trim or trimming in clothing and home decorating is applied ornament, such as gimp, passementerie, ribbon, ruffles, or, as a verb, to apply such ornament. Before the Industrial Revolution, all trim was made and applied by hand, thus making heavily trimmed furnishings and garments expensive and ...

4. Glossary of sewing terms - Wikipedia

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   Home sewing patterns are generally printed on tissue paper and sold in packets containing sewing instructions and suggestions for fabric and trim. piecing Assembling a piece of fabric, or a garment, by stitching together smaller pieces of fabric into a single whole. Commonly used in quilting. [20] [21] piping

5. Wrights (textile manufacturers) - Wikipedia

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   Wrights is a brand of trim and other textiles for home sewing. It, and its subsidiary Lending Textile, operates using Wright, EZ Quilting, Boye and Bondex as brands. Since November 2017, it has been part of CSS Industries. Wrights was founded in Massachusetts in 1897 as William E. Wright & Sons. [1]

6. Ruffle (sewing) - Wikipedia

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   Portrait of a woman wearing a heavily ruffled cap, 1789 Mechanical ruffler by Singer, used on domestic sewing machines. In sewing and dressmaking, a ruffle, frill, or furbelow is a strip of fabric, lace or ribbon tightly gathered or pleated on one edge and applied to a garment, bedding, or other textile as a form of trimming.

7. Soutache - Wikipedia

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   This would feed soutache directly under the needle on the reverse side of the fabric so that designs could be stitched by machine. Manuals and reference books from the middle of the twentieth century indicate that it was very popular at that time, for example Singer Sewing Skills Reference Book. Singer Sewing Machine Company. 1957. p. 20.