If two people sleep in a bed or if the blankets are narrow, put a single blanket on crosswise, placing one of the selvages even with the edge of the mattress at the foot of the bed, then the ends will hang some distance over the sides.
Then put on the under sheet, right side up, with the hems at the top and bottom, the selvages at the sides and the middle crease in the middle of the bed.
If at its edge it breaks into separate glaciers which drain down mountain valleys, these tongues of ice will carry the selvages of waste common to valley glaciers.
The folded edges or selvages are placed together, the right side of the goods being in.
The overhand stitch is used as an ornamental stitch for joining selvages and in hemming.
When sheets wear thin down the center, tear and "turn," whipping the selvages together and hemming the torn edges, which become the new edges of the sheet.
Hang sheets and tablecloths out straight and stretch the selvages even.
The tougher grades are preferred to any other material by weavers of the Afghanistan, Beluchistan, and some Turkoman rugs for selvagesat the sides, as they afford excellent protection against hard usage.
The cloth is kept distended, during the operation of weaving, by means of two pieces of hard wood, called a templet, furnished with sharp iron points in their ends, which take hold of the opposite selvages or lists of the web.
From those combined circumstances, the quality of the cloth is improved, by being more free from defects caused by the breakage of the warp or weft, as well as the selvages being more regular.
It is likely that its original color had been a flaunt of yellow, and that it had been bedizened with certain buttonholes and hems and selvages and things, such as adorn garments in a general way of whatever nature or sex.
When chamber towels get thin in the middle, cut them in two, sew the selvages together, and hem the sides.
The selvages are then sewed together, and the ends seamed and hemmed as before directed.
All the intact ends have the customary Peruvian selvages with heavy loomstring wefts.
It is customary in weaving materials with end as well as side selvages to give more or less attention to the closing of the space between the weaving proper and the heading strip.
Some of the whipping stitches are left loose so the two breadths lie flat, their selvages barely touching; other stitches are drawn so tightly that the selvages form a ridge (pl.
The opposite selvages have hanging threads, remnants of the stitchery which originally seamed two breadths together.
The baseball stitch, if well done, can bring the selvages of two breadths together in a flat seam (pl.
If the selvageswere somewhat worn, the seamstress did not remove them but made a deep turn to fold the worn part to the underside.
The selvages must be sheared as narrowly as possible, since every inch of the carpet is valuable.
When the selvages are removed, the breadths are to be cut into long strips of nearly an inch in width and rolled into balls for the loom.
As explained, the selvages are here gripped between the bands and stretching pulleys, the rims of which are wider apart at the back than the front, and thus, in being conveyed underneath, the piece is suitably stretched.
The selvages of the cloth, or more strictly the two edges of the cloth, of a width of about two inches, are caused to pass over and at the same time are held by the rims of two diverging pulleys.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "selvages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
