Repairing a vintage dress

I recently got given a few vintage dresses, most of them need a few minor repairs, but one of the dresses has pretty frayed seams and a few tiny holes and I'm not sure of the best way to fix them.

The fraying hasn't reached the actual seams yet and doesn't affect the dress, I really just want to prevent/slow down further fraying. I read that casing the seams with bias binding would help prevent further fraying, however some of the seams are a bit narrow to do that.

The tiny holes are more like worn spots where the fabric has just sort of started to come undone. I thought a few stitches plus something to reinforce the fabric would do the trick. What would be best to reinforce it?
BTW the fabric is a linen type fabric.

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2 replies since 9th July 2013 • Last reply 9th July 2013

Reply #1:

You can reinforce weak areas with patches of iron-on interfacing, use the soft kind. It may also be possible to use strips of this to stabilise your seam allowances as well before you try to bind them.

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Reply #2:

I'll try that, thank you for the help! : )

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