A specialty of machine work was their fine hemstitching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission] Reference

The first step in hemstitching is the drawing of threads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles and Clothing] Reference

Buttonholes; tucking; two-needle work; hemstitching; Bonnaz.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making of a Trade School] Reference

There are several methods of hemstitching, but the results are about the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles and Clothing] Reference

I spent a jolly hour unsticking the Alice bandages from my leg and admiring the hemstitching.    From Wordnik.com.  [In The Frame]

Peggy heaved a mighty sigh as she worked her needle in and out of the handkerchief she was hemstitching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keineth] Reference

David heard the terms rolling and whipping, and felling and overcasting and hemstitching and herring-boning which were an unknown tongue to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Round Anvil Rock A Romance] Reference

"Why, I thought you were playing with Giuseppe and the Lilac Lady," replied the young mother, looking up in surprise from the little white dress she was hemstitching.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lilac Lady] Reference

Special Machines -- (seasonal to year round work, depending on kind and demand, wages good): Lace stitch, hemstitching, buttonhole, embroidery (hand and Bonnaz), and scalloping.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making of a Trade School] Reference

Female academies, devoted to teaching the arts of hemstitching, needlework, and refined manners, were also founded by religious bodies, though attended by all who could find time and tuition.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE AMERICAN WEST] Reference

Trade Work: Ribbon run on webbing for suspenders, infants 'dresses -- eight different styles, children's aprons -- two different styles, hemstitching and embroidery for yokes, ruffling -- hem and hemstitched, faggoting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making of a Trade School] Reference

I taught her hemstitching, and I helped her to cut and fit.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Antonia] Reference

Woe unto the young lady who had no knitting, crocheting or hemstitching of her own to do!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood,] Reference

Program on simple, antique hemstitching on linen guest towel with optional fancy hemstitching.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Acorn] Reference

Neither drawn work nor hemstitching wears well, drawing the threads seeming to weaken the fabric.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Home] Reference

One or two were hemstitching lawn, or embroidering a monogram, or something else equally useless or virtuous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Avalanche] Reference

While I was still hemstitching Dr. Finley sent for me -- I suppose he had heard that I was a fellow who needed a job.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don Marquis Letter to Knox College Alumni] Reference

"Opposition based on the hemstitching and embroidery of the law appeared petty in terms of Warren's basic value approach.".    From Wordnik.com.  [VDARE.com - Latest Articles] Reference

Bettina, still hemstitching on white frills, welcomed Justin with a charming smile, but with a decided negative to his invitation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glory of Youth] Reference

A lady sat there hemstitching a damask napkin; a lady of dainty plainness, with a face full of graven experiences and mellowed character.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maid of Maiden Lane] Reference

Mary was no reader; she took out of her locker a pillow-case which she was hemstitching for her stepmother, sat down and got on with the work.    From Wordnik.com.  [St Peter's Finger]

Some of them have been preserved, and with their tiny rows of hemstitching and drawn work and the narrow edges of thread-lace are pretty and dainty even at the present day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference

Then they both laughed to hide the tears behind the unspoken thoughts, and the mother added a little stubbed shoe and a sheer muslin cap, all delicate embroidery and hemstitching.    From Wordnik.com.  [The City of Fire] Reference

Your mother must have been a fine needle-woman, for the rolled hems and hemstitching are perfect. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hester's Counterpart A Story of Boarding School Life] Reference

"Can't you drop that everlasting hemstitching, embroidering, tatting, crocheting, for ten minutes to talk to me?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prudence Says So] Reference

Would she be reduced to taking in fine washing and hemstitching, and canning fruit? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Holiday Stories for Young People] Reference

"There's hemstitching and fagoting, but I don't know as it's any less work than ruffling.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Girl in Old New York] Reference

And now she gives lessons in embroidery and lace work, and hemstitching and fine sewing, and she wears the most beautiful gowns and laces and rings. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Girl in Old Boston] Reference

Bettina hemstitching white frills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glory of Youth] Reference

Ursula had been hemstitching pillow-cases, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [St Peter's Finger]

9. hemstitching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pink of Perfection] Reference

But speak-to-me-only-with-thine-eyes isn't a really reliable reason for embroidering doilies and hemstitching tablecloths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne of the Island] Reference

(3) cat or herringbone, (4) blanket or loop, (5) feather, coral or briar, (6) hemstitching, (7) French knots, (8) button hole, and (9) cross stitch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles and Clothing] Reference