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The Mary Brooks Picken Method of Modern Dressmaking
“The Mary Brooks Picken Method Of Modern Dressmaking” is a complete guide to tailoring, originally written with the amateur in mind. With simple, step-by-step instructions and helpful illustrations and photographs, this classic handbook will be of considerable utility to modern readers with an interest in traditional dressmaking. Contents include: “Dressmaking and Tailoring”, “Modern Methods Make Dressmaking Easy”, “Threads, Needles, Sewing Tools”, “Using Your Sewing Machine”, “How to Handle Fabrics Successfully”, “How to Make Seams and Finishes”, “Essential Needle Stitches and Seams”, “Making Seams in Garments”, “The Art of Tailoring Seams”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on dressmaking and tailoring.
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Sisterly Love
Sisterly Love: Women of Note in Pennsylvania History is a collection of biographical sketches of women who have made or are making significant contributions to Pennsylvania history. The authors of each chapter span across several disciplines and colleges in the Philadelphia area through SEPCHE, the Southeast Pennsylvania Consortium of Higher Education. In these essays you will meet artists, political leaders, entrepreneurs, teachers, computer experts, environmentalists, abolitionists, and more. Some of these women are well-known; many are not. Yet each has helped to shape the state of Pennsylvania in compelling and meaningful ways.
Mary Brooks Picken (1886–1981)
Mary Brooks Picken (1886-1981), including her work at the Woman’s Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences, the development of her eponymous school, the Mary Brooks Picken School, as well as her contribution to New York City, including her tenure as the first female trustee at the Fashion Institute of Technology, among many other achievements. Picken’s legacy includes over ninety-six reference books, pamphlets, lesson books, and fashion history references. Mary Brooks Picken’s career spanned at least six decades, spent educating and encouraging women through sewing and fashion instruction, fashion business, and through the plethora of publications she wrote. While many societal changes ...
Fancy Aprons and Sunbonnets
Originally written by Mary Brooks Picken for the Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences.
Tight Linings and Boning
Tight Linings and Boning, Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts & Sciences, by Mary Brooks Picken. In addition to instructions on padding your dress form and fitting it with a tight lining, this book covers how to properly bone a bodice, including how to finish the ends of the bones, and what is meant by "springing the bone." Mary Brooks Picken (1886-1981) was an American author of 96 books on needlework, sewing, and textile arts. Her Fashion Dictionary, published by Funk and Wagnalls in 1957, is the first dictionary in the English language to be published by a woman. She founded the Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences in Scranton, Pennsylvania. An expert on fashion, Picken was an authority on dress, fabric, design, and sewing. She taught "Economics of Fashion" at Columbia University and was one of the five founding directors of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. She was the first woman to be named a trustee of the State University of New York's Fashion Institute of Technology, by Thomas E. Dewey, the Governor of New York, in 1951.
