The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 78
100—Servants' Fancy Apron
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100—Servants' Fancy Apron.
Rate paid.—1s. 5d. per dozen.
Remarks.—Worker earns 7s. 6d. per week by working nine hours a day. Finds thread and machine.
Process.—Frill crimped and bottom hemmed, put on to apron with tuck, two tucks are then made above this tuck, top crimped and put into band. V-shaped insertion fixed, neck bound with band
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cut on cross, frill of embroidery crimped, and stitched on to neck straps, bib made with two pleats each side, double row of stitching round bib. Sides hemmed. One pair sashings hemmed and stitched on apron.