Hem

Hem

A hem in sewing is a garment finishing method, where the edge of a piece of cloth is folded narrowly and sewn to prevent unravelling of the fabric.

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Famous quotes containing the word hem:

    A cook they hadde with hem for the nones
    To boille the chiknes with the marybones.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    nat every wight he sholde go selle
    Al that he hadde and yive it to the poore,
    And in swich wise folwe him and his fore:
    He spak to hem that wolde live parfitly—
    And lordinges, by youre leve, that am nat I.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    And specially from every shires ende
    Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende
    The hooly blisful martir for to seke
    That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)