Excerpt from Household Sewing With Home Dressmaking WE have every reason to believe that this Manual of Household Sewing and Home Dressmaking will supply a much-felt want, and be welcomed as a valuable addition to the Scheme of Domestic Science Education. The experiment, suggested by a visit to Karlsruhe, of making mending, patching, and darning a branch of continued, and of Technical Education for Women, in England, has proved a complete success, and we trust will aid the Maker of the Home in all classes of society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.