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Tailors’ Tacks: A decorative way of finishing a pleat, a dart or the corners of a

pocket is with tailors’ tacks. The simplest of all tailors’ tacks is the bar tack. To make a bar tack, take four or five over and-over stitches about one-quarter of an inch in length, covering these with over-andover stitches worked close together and in the opposite direction. (See Fig. 4.)