Candidates for Inclusion
Below are listed the works under consideration for inclusion on this site. All of the works will eventually be included. If you have a preference for which book is coded next, please let us know, and we will see if we can accommodate you.
To check up on the progress of various works, we now have a progress blog.
Sewing—
Dressmaking & Sewing ~ School
Textbooks ~ Sewing Courses ~ Pattern
Design ~ Tailoring ~ Clothing & Dress
Accessories—
Glovemaking ~ Millinery
Cleaning—
Laundry/Dry Cleaning
Needlework
and Embroidery—
Needlework
Novelties
Equipment—
Sewing Machines
Sewing
- Dressmaking
& Sewing
- 18xx?—Home Dressmaking and the Art of Good Dressing, The Nutshell Series, Easton De Barras, Iliffe & Son (99 pages)
- 1910, 1907, 1906—Textiles and Clothing, Kate Heintz Watson, Home Economics Association (244 pages)
- 1916, 1911—The Dressmaker, A complete book on all matters connected with sewing and dressmaking from the simplest stitches to the cutting, making, altering, mending and caring for clothes, The Butterick Publishing Company (138 pages)
- 1919—Dressmaking Made Easy, A volume of complete information on any point, great or small that has to with with Dressmaking, Isabel De Nyse Conover, Edward J. Clode (142 pages)
- 1921—The New Dressmaker, With Complete and Fully Illustrated Instructions on Every Point Connected with Sewing, Dressmaking and Tailoring from the Actual Stitches to the Cutting, Making, Altering, Mending and Cleaning of Clothes for Ladies, Misses, Girls, Children, Infants, Men and Boys, The Butterick Publishing Company (168 pages)
- 1925—Woman's World Dressmaking Manual, Giving all the Important Instructions in Home Dressmaking, Ruth Wyeth Spears, Woman's World Magazine Co., Inc. (40 pages)
- 1925—The Mary Brooks Picken Method of Modern Dressmaking, Mary Brooks Picken (96 pages)
- 1927—The Art of Dressmaking, The Butterick Publishing Company (255 pages)
- 1928—The Sewing Book, Blanche E. Hyde, M. A., The Century Co. (348 pages)
- 1930, 1929, 1928, 1927—How to Make Dresses the Modern Singer Way, Singer Sewing Library No. 2, Mary Brooks Picken, The Singer Manufacturing Co. (48 pages)
- 1930—Sewing Secrets, Modern Methods of Stitching, Decorating and Finishing, Mary Brooks Picken, The Spool Cotton Company (49 pages)
- 1934—Sewing Secrets, Modern Methods of Stitching, Decorating and Finishing, Completely Revised, Mary Brooks Picken, The Spool Cotton Company (81 pages)
- 1937—Sewing Secrets, Modern Methods of Stitching, Completely revised edition, The Spool Cotton Company (77 pages)
- 1939, 1936—Singer Illustrated Dressmaking Guide, The Singer Manufacturing Company (48 pages)
- 1940—Short-Cuts to Sewing Success, Victor Isrel, ed., DuBarry Patterns, Ltd. (74 pages)
- 1941, 1939, 1936—Singer Illustrated Dressmaking Guide, The Singer Manufacturing Co. (49 pages)
- 1942, 1940—Sewing Made Easy, Mary Lynch, Nelson Doubleday, Inc. (398 pages)
- 1943—The Complete Book of Sewing, Dressmaking and Sewing for the Home Made Easy, Constance Talbot, Book Presentations (319 pages)
- 1943—Simplicity Sewing Book For Beginners...and Experts, Simplicity Pattern Company (88 pages)
- 1943—Simplified Home Sewing, Helen Hall, Prentice-Hall, Inc. (341 pages)
- 1944—Sewing for Everyone, Mary Brooks Picken, The World Publishing Company (203 pages)
- 1947, 1943, 1941, 1939, 1936—Singer Dressmaking Guide, The Singer Manufacturing Company (49 pages)
- 1948—The New Encyclopedia of Modern Sewing, Francis Blondin, Zelpha Bates, Ethel Pusch, Wm. H. Wise & Co., Inc. (366 pages)
- 1949—The Complete Book of Sewing, Constance Talbot (319 pages)
- 1953—Sew with Distinction, A Picture Reference Sewing Course, Sears, Roebuck and Company, Midwest Technical Publications (8 books, approx. 32 pages each)
- 1954—Simplicity Sewing Book, Easy Guide for Beginners and Experts, Simplicity Pattern Company (104 pages)
- 1956—The First Book of Sewing, Catherine Roberts, Franklin Watts, Inc. (67 pages)
- 1958—Dressmaking, by Singer, The Singer Manufacturing Company (82 pages)
- School Textbooks
- 1898—Scientific Sewing and Garment Cutting, Antoinette V. H. Wakeman and Louise M. Heller, Silver Burdett & Company(155 pages)
- 1913—The Sewing Book, containing complete instructions in sewing and simple garment-making for children in the primary and grammar grades, Anne L. Jessup, ed., The Butterick Publishing Company (120 pages)
- Clothing & Dress
- 1924, 1916—Clothing for Women, Selection, Design, Construction - A Practical Manual for School and Home, Laura I. Baldt, A.M., J. B. Lippincott Company (454 pages)
- 1931—Color and Line in Dress, Laurene Hempstead, Prentice Hall, Inc. (347 pages)
- 1931—Fabrics and Dress, Lucy Rathbone and Elizabeth Tarpley, Houghton Mifflin Company (430 pages)
- 1933—Clothing for the High School Girl, (Simplicity - Economy),Laura I. Baldt, A.M., J. B. Lippincott Company (390 pages)
- 1935—The Mode in Dress and Home, Dulcie Godlove Donovan, Allyn and Bacon (awaiting shipment)
- 1943—Fabrics and Dress, Lucy Rathbone, Elizabeth Tarpley, Alice F. Blood, Houghton Mifflin Company (408 pages)
- 1946—Clothes with Character, Hazel Thompson Craig and Ola Day Rush, D.C. Health and Company (276 pages)
- 1949—200 Ways to Alter a Dress, Pretty and practical remodeling tricks to give you a larger wardrobe Designed for every woman who wants more clothes, Virginia Allen McIntire (80 pages)
- 1952—Fashion Sewing on a Budget, Miriam B. Reichl, The Homemaker's Encyclopedia, Inc. (254 pages)
- 1955—The Art of Costume and Personal Appearance, Grace Margaret Morton, second edition revised by Carolyn Ruby, Bess Steele, Mary E. Guthrie, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (362 pages)
- Sewing Courses
- 1921—A Complete Course in Dressmaking in Twelve Lessons, Isabel De Nyse Conover, Edward J. Clode (Lesson 9, 16 pages; Lesson 12, 36 pages)
- 1932—White School of Costume Art, Extension Course, Evalyn Healy, White Sewing Machine Co. (Ten Lessons, 200+ pages)
- 1937, 1936, 1931—Dressmaking - Complete, Sye Foundation Pattern Co. (296 pages)
- Pattern Design
- 1928—Nu-Way Course in Pattern Drafting, Carolyn Countiss, Fashion Institute (8 lessons, approx. 16 pages each)
- 1938—Draping and Dress Design, Mary Evans, Edwards Brothers, Inc. (87 pages)
- 1941, 1940—Lipson's Textbook of Practical Costume Design, Create with Confidence, Louis Lipson, (220 pages)
- undated - late 1940's—Louise Salinger Academy of Fashion, Pattern Drafting (105 lessons)
- 1950—Pattern Alteration, Farmers' Bulletin No. 1968, Margaret Smith, U.S. Government Printing Office (40 pages)
- 1957—Pattern Drafting & Grading, Women's and Misses' Garment Design, inluding junior's, sub-teens, teens, and half sizes, M. Rohr (100 pages)
- Tailoring
- 1931—Coat and Suit Making, Minne A. Anderson, M.A., Burgess Publishing Co. (37 pages)
- 1936—The Modern Tailor, Outfitter and Clothier, A. S. Bridgland, MJI (General Editor), The Claxton Publishing Company, Ltd. (Vol. 1, 288 pages; Vol. 2, 263 pages; Vol. 3, 308 pages)
- 1941—Coat Making at Home, U.S. Department of Agriculture Farmers' Bulletin No. 1894, Margaret Smith, U.S. Government Printing Office (27 pages)
- 1945—Tailoring, The Spool Cotton Company (23 pages)
- 1946 (reprinted 1954)—How to Tailor a Woman's Suit, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Home and Garden Bulletin No. 20, Margaret Smith, U.S. Government Printing Office (24 pages)
- 1952—Fitting Coats and Suits, Home and Garden Bulletin No. 11, Margaret Smith, U.S. Government Printing Office (22 pages)
- 1957, 1955, 1954—Buying Women's Coats and Suits, Home and Garden Bulletin No. 31, Clarice L. Scott, U.S. Government Printing Office (23 pages)
Accessories
Needlework and Embroidery
- Needlework
- 1902—Dainty Work, of the Dainty Series, compiled and written by Editor of "Home Art," Journal Devoted to Interior Decoration [whose name they did not include!], Thompson & Thomas (458 pages)
Cleaning
Novelties
- early 1940's—A Bag of Tricks for Home Sewing, "Cotton Bags give you Tested Sewing Fabrics," Sewing with Feed Sacks. The National Cotton Council of America, (32 pages)
- 1942—Make and Mend for Victory, The Spool Cotton Company (50 pages)
- 1950—Kleenex Sewing Projects, Twelve instruction folders featuring basic stitches, seams and constructions used in sewing projects of this type, Mary Brooks Picken, Kimberly-Clark Corporation (26 pages)
- undated - circa 1950's—101 Ways to Save with your Sewing Machine, Domestic Sewing Machine Co., Inc. (22 pages)
Equipment
- Sewing Machines
- 1943—Sewing Machines, Cleaning and Adjusting, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Farmers' Bulletin No. 1944, Helen S. Holbrook & Albert V. Krewatch, U.S. Government Printing Office (24 pages)
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