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Textiles and Garment Construction
The use of crossway strips: Crossway
strips are used for:
(i) Binding raw edges
(ii) Facing raw edges.
(iii) Bound buttonholes.
(ii) Stripes running in opposite direction. (iv) Rouleau loops.
This is caused by confusing the (v) Piping.
right and wrong sides of woven
fabric and thus joining a weft Procedures for working on a bound
edge to a selvedge one. opening
(i) Mark the length of the opening and
make a straight cut in the garment.
(iii) The grain of a fabric with an
irregular weave run in different
directions. Reason as (ii).
(ii) Cut a narrow crossway strip of a
fabric twice the length of the opening
and four times its finished width.
(iv) Joins running in different directions
instead of being parallel to each
other. This is caused by not cutting
the ends of each strip parallel to
each other before joining.
(iii) Place the strip of the fabric on the
opening. Match the right sides of
the strip and of the garment. Pin, tack
and stitch in position. Avoid making
folds at the bottom of the opening.
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