The remaining goods are equally divided and pleated in like manner into four full pleats of equal size and depth.
When all tacked in place a line is drawn from A to B on each side, the pleats pinned or basted and taken down, then the edges trimmed off square to the line and bound.
The centre pipe or tail is treated as a single tail by drawing a line through its centre to divide it for measuring. (E——F, Figure [22], dotted line.)
The half is sketched out full size, as explained in Figure [3], Chapter on Festoon Drapery, allowing one more return fold at back to meet the other side at centre line (Point F, Figure [22]), and the pattern repeated at G——H X in Figure [3] to make the full double tail, which is lined and joined together at the edges E——F, Figure [22], and then pleated.
It is well to cut a double pattern all in one piece and pleat it so that you can tell by the folds of the pattern where seams will be permissible in the fabric.
A great many combinations such as these can be made by the exercise of a little ingenuity and patience, which will depend for their appearance on the neatness of the work and the disposition of the stripe or pattern of the fabric.
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