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Show -"-"'jprMftaaK2) Stopping Is French Method of Mending STOPPING is the French method of invisibly repairing a hole or burn of any size In homespuns or tweeds. The work needs careful attention, but is most interesting, it Is done in the following follow-ing manner : Cut the sides of the burn straight along a thread of the cloth Into a square or oblong, ob-long, according to the extent of the damage, dam-age, and tack it flat on to a pleco of cloth, fa"- upward, an In Figure 1. If you have not any spare material to match the garment, gar-ment, a piece should be cut from the back of the hem, which itself can be repaired with something eise. The patch must be. If posslole, at least two inches wider and deeper than the hole, otherwise the repeated re-peated threading of the needle with such short strands Is apt to be tedious. Begin by unravelling the patch on each side until the remaining centre Is one additional ad-ditional thread larger each way than the cut out damaged square, which it must exactly correspond to in pattern, so that when this long fringed mat Is placed over the hole It Just overlaps by precisely one thread each side. It must then be tacked down, face upward, on to the cloth to keep It in place, carefully matching the pattern of the material threadofor thread. The next thing is to get a darning needle, not too long, with an eye thnt will thread the unravelled strands enslly. but at the same time 13 not so large aa to pull the cloth out of shape Now thread the firs1. strand and darn It in by putting the needle Into the cloth exactly over the corresponding correspond-ing strand of the same color; before pulling pull-ing It through run for a stitch or two along tho back of the material, on no account letting it come through to the surface. Draw the stitch firmly, but not too tightly. Tho strands must all be threaded one after another and worked In in the same manner, until the fringe on all four sides has disappeared from the face of the material. Figure 3 shows the last stitch of the second sec-ond side being darned In. Having finished, cut the tacking threads and remove the cloth. Place the patch faco downward on a padded Ironing board, and press with a moderately hot iron over a damp cloth. If these Instructions are carefully followed It will be almost impossible t- sec where the carment has been reoalred The damage which wc are going to deal with next is a straight tear or cut n a smooth cloth. It will doubtless be noticed that whenever there Is the least pull on a darn a gap very soon appears, and the repair, even It it ha3 beer, carefully dona with ravellings o" the same materia:, 13 then obvious and unsightly. The French have a very good scho-r.. which iv be fcunri to give the best result possible, and is dono aa follows: It iha tear Is a f raved one. place It on a alece of board and with a sharp penknife or razor cut the rrmged parts away, fhrn lack tho material face downward on a piece of cloth or even brown paper. See that the edges Just touch. Next thread a fmo needle with a light or dark hair, ncordlng to the color of tha cloth and then commence to darn slantwise slant-wise at an angle of forty-five degrees, first forward and backward one way and then cross the earning at tho sirm angle reversed, picking up only Iial threadp. so that the needle docs not po through to the right side, where the crossing cross-ing of the dan Is; Just commenced. When It la finished do not drag (he tacking cotton out, as this may cause the j j darn to pucker. Cut each thread on tha cloth side carefully, remove the cloth, -nd gently draw out the tacklngs. Press m the usual way by laying the cloth face downward on a pudded Ironing board, place a damp ncth on the back, press (or two or three secords. remove the damp cloth and finish the pressing with 4 moderately hot Iror. |
