1912 #34 Nightgown Envelope -- Pochette Pour Linge de Nuit

1912 #34 Nightgown Envelope -- Pochette Pour Linge de Nuit
This object is essential in a trousseau looked after. After having aired, during one
hour or two, the nightgown, one folds it and one places it in its envelope; and when this
one is well embroidered, one leaves it on the bed, once this last is made.
This small envelope is made from only one piece being 31cm long and 19cm wide.
The fold of the hem has one centimeter.
It is necessary, before sewing it, to embroider it. The drawing is transferred with the
pounce or the blue greasy paper [dressmakers’ tracing paper], then it is marked out with
white cotton thread to prevent its fading.
The motif of the top is copied at one of the ends of the band; that of the bottom, at the
other end.
If one wants to embroider it in colors, -- which would be very graceful – one will
make the forget-me-nots pale blue, the leaves and the stems in green. The inscription, in
blue a little more vivid or, if one prefers it, of the same color as the forget-me-nots. One
can also embroider the whole in white.
The embroidery finished, one will make a framing in color as the model indicates.
This ornament is composed simply of points de diable forming rectangles. If one has
embroidered the motifs in white, one will make the framing in red. If one has
embroidered in colors, one will make it in blue.
One folds up the bottom of the band then in order to form a pocket which one sews on
the wrong side. The remainder of the band is folded back in order to let show the
embroidery of the part already folded up. Under the two bows of ribbon in windmill
shapes, one puts snaps.
To embroider, make use of bright coton a broder “A la Croix” Cartier Bresson, CB #4.
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