IN OLDEN TIMES THE WOMEN PREPARED ALL THE TEXTILE YARNS AT HOME

THE HOME-MAKING SERIES

CLOTHING AND HEALTH

AN ELEMENTARY TEXTBOOK OF HOME MAKING

BY

HELEN KINNE

PROFESSOR OF HOUSEHOLD ARTS EDUCATION, TEACHERS COLLEGE
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, AUTHOR OF "FOOD AND HOUSEHOLD
MANAGEMENT" AND "SHELTER AND CLOTHING"

AND

ANNA M. COOLEY, B.S.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HOUSEHOLD ARTS EDUCATION, TEACHERS COLLEGE
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, AUTHOR OF "FOOD AND HOUSEHOLD
MANAGEMENT" AND "SHELTER AND CLOTHING"

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1920

All rights reserved

Copyright, 1916,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1916.

Norwood Press

J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

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PREFACE

This volume, like its companion, Food and Health, isintended for use in the elementary schools in those sections of thecountry where the home life is of the type described. It is hoped thatboth volumes will be used by the home people as well as by those at theschool.

This volume treats largely of the clothing problems and of theelementary work in sewing which precedes garment making. It alsoincludes the subject of the leading textile materials,—where theyare grown and how they are manufactured ready for our use. Such topicsas the hygiene of clothing, buying materials and clothing wisely, theclothing budget, the use of the commercial pattern, the care and repairof clothing, color combinations, and attractiveness in dress, arewoven in with the lessons on sewing and textiles, in a very simple andelementary way.

The authors are indebted to the United States Department ofAgriculture, to the Smithsonian Institution, to the Draper Company,Hopedale, Massachusetts, to the York Street Flax Spinning Company,Belfast, to the Whittall Rug Company, to Cheney Brothers, silkmanufacturers, and to others, for kind permission to use the pictures[iv]shown. We acknowledge, also, the permission of the Corticelli SilkMills of Florence, Massachusetts, for use of their copyrightedphotographs of silkworms. Teachers will be glad to know that they canobtain from the Corticelli Mills, at slight expense, specimen cocoonsand other helps for object lesson teaching.

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