FM 10-16 General Fabric Repair
U.S. Department of the Army (hosted on Internet Archive)
The redistributable sewing manual: hand and machine stitches, seams, darns, patches, zippers/fasteners, canvas and webbing repair — directly applicable to repairing clothing, tents, packs, and tarps.
Editor's notes
Superseded by TM 4-42.21 (July 2013, same content lineage, available via armypubs) — consider bundling the newer TM; the 2000 scan is large, consider re-OCR/compress.
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