Pullout color chart from Wright's #17 bias tape booklet, 1926. Each color and
sample is embossed. |
Projects from #17 Wright's bias tape booklet, 1926 |
1933 Nufashond booklet contained 14 sizes of rickrack, up 4 sizes of rickrack from
its1920 booklets.
- Courtesty Sharon Stark.
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In 1920 Nufashond offered 10 sizes of rickrack and 11 sizes of wave braid. This
page is a sizer to aid persons in correct selection of size designated in project.
- courtesy of Sharon Stark |
From Nufashond's #4 rickrack booklet, 1920 -- several ways to decoratively trim
clothes with rickrack. |
Intricate projects combining crochet and rack rack. From Nufashond's #4 1920
rickrack booklet. |
From #17 Wright's bias tape booklet, 1926 -- using tape with binder |
Cover of a Barton's 1926 salesman's folder of bias tape samples. |
One of the projects from the Clark's/Coats1946 booklet -- how to make bias
tape bands |
Cover of a 1946 Clarks/J&P Coats #S-23 bias tape
and trimming project
booklet. |
Wright's Leaflet D, 1931, third in an instructional series thought to be issued for
schools and other learning institutions. D pertained to decorative uses for bias
tape. A was the making of bias tape; C instructed how to use it. Wright's made no mention
of a B. Although called a leaflet it was an 8-page booklet.
-Shirley McElderry Collection |
  Clark's ONT sewing guide
for bias tape. Date unknown but judging from illustrations, booklet appears to be from the
1920s.
- Courtesy Leona Stormoen |
Inside of Barton's 1926 folder contains bias tape samples, 7 pull-out prints
showing uses for various fancy bias tapes and an actual sample of bias tape sewn to a
curved pocket-shaped instruction sheet. |
An appealing group of projects from Wright's bias tape
booklet # 21, fall 1929. Timing may have coincided with Oct. 29 stock market crash, a not
so appealing event. |
