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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

A Moment with Twill Tape

A seamstress friend gave me a box of odds and ends --  one nice thing about making dolls is that people give you boxes of notions.   In it was several rolls of cotton twill tape.
Twill tape is a reinforcement that is found in old doll clothes.  I've seen it used to reinforce armholes in human-sized costumes. 


I realized that if I sewed it on flat, the stitches would show through to the other side.  
So I figured I needed to press the seam allowances together, (not apart as they are shown here) and then hand-stitch the tape to the seam allowances.  Kind of just finishing the raw edges.

I am sure I will find other uses for twill tape.... If someone reading this knows about uses of twill tape for  reinforcement, please share.  
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