NEW PUBLICATION
The Workbasket Vol. 15 No. 7
I-WB153 The Workbasket Vol. 15 No. 7 – April 1950
This issue contains a knitted lace, a tatted collar, and crochet bedspread, chair set, and edging. There is also an April Miss to applique, the North Carolina rose quilt to sew, and details on the invisible patch. The many uses of gourds are discussed. Did you know you can make vases, lamps, dolls, and more from gourds? Basketry is covered in detail, including materials to use, weaves, and where to find the supplies. The recipe section covers an Easter menu with ham, pigs in blanket, and several egg dishes. One of the books reviewed, named Cosmopolitan Cooking, covers how to make international dishes like bortsh, marmite, vichyssoise.
Stapled softcover, 32 pages. Scanned 400dpi png.
From the collection of Sarah Dalton, scanned by Seya Wijnsma-Spek, edited by Linda Mays. Published with kind permission of F+W Media, the current copyright holder.
Invisible patching used to be a veritable form of art, taking time, patience, excellent eyesight (or reading glasses), and spare pieces of fabric. I have several darning samplers and those are different, because the hole is filled with interwoven thread, all new. Patching requires a piece of fabric to be interwoven into the existing fabric and that’s done when the damage is too large, or the fabric is not suitable to single-thread interwoven darning. The art has not died out yet, our village tailor still can do this invisible mending on large holes in woollen coats. In the fifties when clothing was expensive and meticulously cared for, this was taught in schools. And it’s still a useful skill (that I don’t have, sigh) and will be more so in the future, when the buy, wear once, throw away fashion becomes impossible. Try it once, with a not-too-fine weave, and you’ll take your hat off to people still having this skill.
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