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Textiles and Clothing
BY

KATE HEINTZ WATSON
GRADUATE ARMOUR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
FORMERLY INSTRUCTOR IN DOMESTIC ART LEWIS
INSTITUTE LECTURER UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
[Illustration: American School of Home Economics seal]
CHICAGO AMERICAN SCHOOL OF HOME ECONOMICS 1907
COPYRIGHT 1906, 1907, BY HOME ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION
THE LIBRARY OF HOME ECONOMICS
A COMPLETE HOME-STUDY COURSE
ON THE NEW PROFESSION OF HOME-MAKING AND ART OF
RIGHT LIVING; THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF THE MOST
RECENT ADVANCES IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES TO HOME
AND HEALTH
PREPARED BY TEACHERS OF RECOGNIZED AUTHORITY
FOR HOME-MAKERS, MOTHERS, TEACHERS, PHYSICIANS,
NURSES, DIETITIANS, PROFESSIONAL HOUSE MANAGERS,
AND ALL INTERESTED IN HOME, HEALTH, ECONOMY AND
CHILDREN
TWELVE VOLUMES
NEARLY THREE THOUSAND PAGES, ONE THOUSAND
ILLUSTRATIONS TESTED BY USE IN CORRESPONDENCE
INSTRUCTION REVISED AND SUPPLEMENTED
[Illustration: American School of Home Economics seal]
CHICAGO AMERICAN SCHOOL OF HOME ECONOMICS 1907
Copyright, 1907 by Home Economics Association

Entered at Stationers' Hall, London All Rights Reserved.
AUTHORS
ISABEL BEVIER, Ph. M.
Professor of Household Science, University of Illinois. Author U. S.
Government Bulletins, "Development of The Home Economics
Movement in America," etc.
ALICE PELOUBET NORTON, M. A.
Assistant Professor of Home Economics, School of Eduction,
University of Chicago; Director of the Chautauqua School of Domestic
Science.
S. MARIA ELLIOTT
Instructor in Home Economics, Simmons College; Formerly Instructor
School of Housekeeping, Boston.
ANNA BARROWS
Director Chautauqua School of Cookery; Lecturer Teachers' College,
Columbia University, and Simmons College; formerly Editor
"American Kitchen Magazine;" Author "Home Science Cook Book."
ALFRED CLEVELAND COTTON, A. M., M. D.
Professor Diseases of Children, Rush Medical College, University of
Chicago; Visiting Physician Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago; Author of
"Diseases of Children."
BERTHA M. TERRILL, A. B.
Professor in Home Economics in Hartford School of Pedagogy; Author
of U. S. Government Bulletins.
KATE HEINTZ WATSON

Formerly Instructor in Domestic Economy, Lewis Institute; Lecturer
University of Chicago.
MARION FOSTER WASHBURNE
Editor "The Mothers' Magazine;" Lecturer Chicago Froebel
Association; Author "Everyday Essays," "Family Secrets," etc.
MARGARET E. DODD
Graduate Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Teacher of Science,
Woodard Institute.
AMY ELIZABETH POPE
With the Panama Canal Commission; Formerly Instructor in Practical
and Theoretical Nursing, Training School for Nurses, Presbyterian
Hospital, New York City.
MAURICE LE BOSQUET, S. B.
Director American School of Home Economics; Member American
Public Health Association and American Chemical Society.
CONTRIBUTORS AND EDITORS
ELLEN H. RICHARDS
Author "Cost of Food," "Cost of Living," "Cost of Shelter," "Food
Materials and Their Adulteration," etc., etc.; Chairman Lake Placid
Conference on Home Economics.
MARY HINMAN ABEL
Author of U. S. Government Bulletins, "Practical Sanitary and
Economic Cooking," "Sale Food," etc.
THOMAS D. WOOD, M. D.

Professor of Physical Education, Columbia University.
H. M. LUFKIN, M. D.
Professor of Physical Diagnosis and Clinical Medicine, University of
Minnesota.
OTTO FOLIN, Ph. D.
Special Investigator, McLean Hospital, Waverly, Mass.
T. MITCHELL PRUDDEN, M. D., LL. D.
Author "Dust and Its Dangers," "The Story of the Bacteria," "Drinking
Water and Ice Supplies," etc.
FRANK CHOUTEAU BROWN
Architect, Boston, Mass.; Author of "The Five Orders of Architecture,"
"Letters and Lettering."
MRS. MELVIL DEWEY
Secretary Lake Placid Conference on Home Economics.
HELEN LOUISE JOHNSON
Professor of Home Economics, James Millikan University, Decatur.
FRANK W. ALLIN, M. D.
Instructor Rush Medical College, University of Chicago.
MANAGING EDITOR
MAURICE LE BOSQUET, S. B.
Director American School of Home Economics.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF HOME
ECONOMICS
MRS. ARTHUR COURTENAY NEVILLE
President of the Board.
MISS MARIA PARLOA
Founder of the first Cooking School in Boston; Author of "Home
Economics," "Young Housekeeper," U. S. Government Bulletins, etc.
MRS. MARY HINMAN ABEL
Co-worker in the "New England Kitchen," and the "Rumford Food
Laboratory;" Author of U. S. Government Bulletins, "Practical Sanitary
and Economic Cooking," etc.
MISS ALICE RAVENHILL
Special Commissioner sent by the British Government to report on the
Schools of Home Economics in the United States; Fellow of the Royal
Sanitary Institute, London.
MRS. ELLEN M. HENROTIN
Honorary President General Federation of Woman's Clubs.
MRS. FREDERIC W. SCHOFF
President National Congress of Mothers.
MRS. LINDA HULL LARNED
Past President National Household Economics Association; Author of
"Hostess of To-day."
MRS. WALTER McNAB MILLER

Chairman of the Pure Food Committee of the General Federation of
Woman's Clubs.
MRS.