NARROW BINDINGS.

Shannon News, 2 November 1928, Page 2

NARROW BINDINGS.

Very narrow binds make the most exquisite finish, to the frills of a summery frock of voile, silk organdie or like fabric. Paris keeps these binds to an eighth-inch width, and this is how'she does it. The'method is so simple that you can copy it quite, easily.' Cut your binding material into lialfinch strips exactly on the cross. Join them into the length you want, pressing th,j tiny seams out quite!-flat. Now double the strip lengthways, and with a warm iron press the fold carefully. Because; binds need to'be well stretched if* they are to set without wrinkling, pull your strip taut as you press. Tack the 'doubled length to the right side of the material you're binding, the three raw edges exactly level. Stitch them together an eighth-inch from thesis, keeping your sewing very straight. When you turn the bind to the inside, the folded edge, is easy to fell down, a'nd you have no tiresome tuming-in to do. When you are using; a material that might be clumsy if used double, press an eighth-inch turning along one edge of it 'first, stretching at the same time, then back the raw edge to the edge to be bound, and stitch as before. .Fell the prepared edge down inside. For binding with ribbon, tack this on as you would a material bind, but bring its edge down below the edge of the material as you can take .your stitching quite close to it without any danger of fraying. Inside you need make no turnings, simply felling the ribbon edge in place.