A French seam is a style of seam used in the manufacture of garments from sheer and lightweight fabrics. The seam is made from a normal seam, which is then trimmed and turned to the wrong side and another seam made sandwiching the raw edges within it.
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Completely enclosed seam. Used for sheer fabrics or for high couture.
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A seam finish used for sheer and delicate fabrics, this method hides the raw edges in a neat double fold on the wrong side of the fabric. ie seam allowance is enclosed in the fold.
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a seam in which the raw edges of the cloth are completely covered by sewing them together, first on the right side, then on the wrong.
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with wrong sides together stitch your seam, turn wrong sides out (i.e. right sides together), press (optional) and restitch the seam, using a slightly larger seam allowance. This results in a neat seam with no raw edges to finish.
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