Butted Seams

Butted seams are seams that join two pieces of finished edges together. These finished edges can be a closed selvedge on fabric or a pre-hemmed textile. A whip-stitch is used to join the two pieces of fabric together and is intended to lay flat when finished.

Applications:

• Modern skirt side seams.

• Modern unlined shirt and shoulder side seams.

• Shirt side seams, c. 1750-1840, colonized Atlantic World.

• Shift side seams, c. 1750-1840, colonized Atlantic World.

• Sheets

• Coverlets

Right Handed