hemstitching

He had been finely striped from nape to knees with something like a coachwhip, the weals crisscrossing neatly like hemstitching.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

Female academies, devoted to teaching the arts of hemstitching, needlework, and refined manners, were also founded by religious bodies, though attended by all who could find time and tuition.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

I spent a jolly hour unsticking the Alice bandages from my leg and admiring the hemstitching.

In The Frame Francis, Dick 1976

No, there were only, as I recall, five or six girls sitting around a table in one room — they were hemstitching — and I was measuring linen. [unknown] And we were not permitted to go into the rest of the place, but I could hear and see a few other girls weaving.

Oral History Interview with Harriette Arnow, April, 1976. Interview G-0006. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1976

Trade Work: Ribbon run on webbing for suspenders, infants 'dresses -- eight different styles, children's aprons -- two different styles, hemstitching and embroidery for yokes, ruffling -- hem and hemstitched, faggoting.

The Making of a Trade School Mary Schenck Woolman

Buttonholes; tucking; two-needle work; hemstitching; Bonnaz

The Making of a Trade School Mary Schenck Woolman

Peggy heaved a mighty sigh as she worked her needle in and out of the handkerchief she was hemstitching.

Keineth Jane Abbott

Special Machines -- (seasonal to year round work, depending on kind and demand, wages good): Lace stitch, hemstitching, buttonhole, embroidery (hand and Bonnaz), and scalloping.

The Making of a Trade School Mary Schenck Woolman

"All but about an inch of hemstitching done on this handkerchief."

Tabitha at Ivy Hall Ruth Alberta Brown

A specialty of machine work was their fine hemstitching.

Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission