Author: MIEP [PSEUDONYM],
Title: Praktische Kleeding. Gezellige Handleiding voor het zelf vervaardigen van allerhande Kleedingstukken . [Eerste druk; First edition].
Description: Amsterdam, De Arbeiderspers, 1932. 3 parts. Small folio. Original wrappers, stapled. Covertitle in bold green coloured type. 40, 34, 32pp. Numerous captioned monochrome illustrations featuring young children under the age of 10, Ladies and men's dressed in all kinds of home made fashionable clothing, accompanied by many cutter's patterns with detailed technical directions, including sizing and measurements, reducing and enlargement of patterns, including directions for embroideries and border decoration, author's preface, table of contents. WITH a large square folio sized [650x500mm.] extending sheet with special cutter's paterns and monochrome illustrations of fashionable clothing with extensive technical directions, printed on both sides on thin paper, loosely inserted in part III. NOT called-for in Royal Dutch Library, KB. A lavishly illustrated dutch language textbook about home made fashionable children's clothing: reincoats and caps, trousers and dresses, pull-overs, socks and stockings, mittens and knitted gloves, etc. including directions for the art of pattern drawing and cutting, enlarging and reducing, measurements and sizing. Very goodand complete set. (some minimal signs of dog-earing).

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