18th and 19th-century shirts are hand sewn with a flat-felled seam. This flat-felled seam is based on a 19th-century shirt in a private collection like the shirts worn in Bridgerton and Jane Austen movies. This is perfect hand sewing for modern slow stitchers looking to sew an unlined garment without a sewing machine. This felled seam is done in two parts:
1) Stitch the seam with a “reverse backstitch.”
2) Open up the seam and fell down the raw edge.
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