Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1917 — Saving Material. [ARTICLE]

Saving Material.

When, in cutting out a blouse or other garment from silk, there has been enough material allowed to give a certain amount of leeway in placing the pieces of the pattern on the silk, arranging to keep those pieces as much as possible toward one definite side of the breadth will often result, in giving one a very available Jong, straight strip of silk, enough for a Windsor tie or a bag, when lack of forethought would leave, of the same amount of goods, nothing but small cut pieces, of comparatively little use to the heed lewoman. ,