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The binding to be effective should not only be of different color, design or material, but also of goods of a firm texture and yet not bulky. It is easier to round off a corner than to turn at right angles and bind a square corner. Binding is very quickly and neatly done with a binding attachment. (See Lesson I.)

To do binding by hand, as a dressmaker would say, and which means without an attachment, lay

Fig. 5. The first stitching in joining a bias binding to the edge

the binding along the edge of the material with the right side of the binding next to the right side of the goods. (See Fig. 5.) Stitch along the edge, running the stitching one quarter of an inch from the edge.

Fold the binding onto the wrong side of the material. (See Fig. 6.) Turn under the free edge of the binding one-fourth of an inch and

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