Fig. 12. Another kind of sewing-stitch.
Antique or old-German seam (figs. [13] and [14]).—Tack or pin the selvedges together as above, then, pointing your needle upwards from below, insert it, two threads from the selvedge, first on the wrong side, then on the right, first through one selvedge, then through the other, setting the stitches two threads apart. In this manner, the thread crosses itself, between the two selvedges, and a perfectly flat seam is produced. Seams of this kind occur in old embroidered linen articles, where the stuff was too narrow to allow for any other. A similar stitch, fig. [14], only slanting, instead of quite straight, as in fig. [13], is used in making sheets.
Fig. 13. Antique or old-german seam.
Fig. 14. Antique or old german seam.
French double seam (fig. [15]).—For joining such stuffs as fray, use the so-called French-seam.
Run your two pieces of stuff together, the wrong sides touching, and the edges perfectly even, then turn them round just at the seam, so that the right sides come together inside, and the two raw edges are enclosed between, and run them together again. See that no threads are visible on the outside. This seam is used chiefly in dress-making, for joining slight materials together which cannot be kept from fraying by any other means.