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Hand Sewing

Hand sewing a hole or rip in a pair of jeans is something I recommend only if the tear isn’t very wide. The use of a blind stitch makes the hole disappear and the stitches “invisible”.

Hand Sewing

Hand sewing a hole or rip in a pair of jeans is something I recommend only if the tear isn’t very wide. The use of a blind stitch makes the hole disappear and the stitches “invisible”.

a. Begin by cutting away some of the threads around the hole. Don’t cut the actual fabric, just the frayed parts.
b. The stitch needed to sew an invisible seam is a vertical blind stitch. Start 1/2 inch from the right edge of the hole and insert your needle from the inside of the jeans up through the top.
c. You will make stitches that are vertical and that go across the hole from top to bottom. Make several small stitches and gradually make them bigger until they are the height of the hole. After a few stitches pull the thread taught and your stitches will become invisible.
Once you pass the hole go past it to the left 1/2 inch, gradually making your stitches smaller. Remember to pull the thread in order to make your stitches invisible. Tie off your thread and cut close to the jeans.

Denim is a sturdy cotton warp-faced twill textile in which the weft passes under two or more warp threads. This twill weaving produces the familiar diagonal ribbing of the denim that distinguishes it from cotton duck (a linen canvas).

It is a characteristic of most indigo denim that only the warp threads are dyed, whereas the weft threads remain plain white. As a result of the warp-faced twill weaving, one side of the textile then shows the blue warp threads and the other side shows the white weft threads. This is why blue jeans are white on the inside. The indigo dyeing process, in which the core of the warp threads remains white, creates denim's fading characteristics, which are unique compared to every other textile.

Denim and jeans - where do the names come from?

The word jeans comes from a kind of material that was made in Europe. The material, called jean, was named after sailors from Genoa in Italy, because they wore clothes made from it. The word 'denim' probably came from the name of a French material, serge de Nimes: serge (a kind of material) from Nimes (a town in France).

jeans
dʒiːnz/Submit
noun
plural noun: jeans
hard-wearing casual trousers made of denim or other cotton fabric.
"he wore a pair of faded jeans and a white T-shirt"
synonyms: denims, blue jeans; More
Origin

mid 19th century: plural of jean.
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Use over time for: jeans