Sewing

Sewing is the craft of fastening or attaching objects using stitches made with a needle and thread. Sewing is one of the oldest of the textile arts, arising in the Paleolithic era.

The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle
The Dressmakers of London
Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free
The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1)
The Secret Keeper of Main Street
A Dress of Violet Taffeta
The Seamstress of New Orleans
The Edge of Summer
The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison
Crossed by Death (Stitches in Crime #1)
The Little Book of Cottagecore: Traditional Skills for a Simpler Life
The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes
Mystical Stitches: Embroidery for Personal Empowerment and Magical Embellishment
Contemporary Patchwork: Techniques in Colour, Surface Design & Sewing
Loved Clothes Last: How the Joy of Rewearing and Repairing Your Clothes Can Be a Revolutionary Act
Couture Sewing Techniques, Revised and Updated
The Sewing Book
The Colette Sewing Handbook: Inspired Styles and Classic Techniques for the New Seamstress
Gertie’s New Book for Better Sewing: A Modern Guide to Couture-Style Sewing Using Basic Vintage Techniques
One-Yard Wonders: 101 Sewing Projects; Look How Much You Can Make with Just One Yard of Fabric!
Vogue Sewing
Patternmaking for Fashion Design
Bend-the-Rules Sewing: The Essential Guide to a Whole New Way to Sew
Complete Guide to Sewing
New Complete Guide to Sewing
The Complete Photo Guide to Perfect Fitting
The Art of Manipulating Fabric
Weekend Sewing: More Than 40 Projects and Ideas for Inspired Stitching (Weekend Craft)
Design-It-Yourself Clothes: Patternmaking Simplified
Sew What! Skirts: 16 Simple Styles You Can Make with Fabulous Fabrics

Polly Shulman
What are you doing?" "I'm darning a sock," he said, holding it up to show me. "What's that lump inside?" "A sock egg." "A sock egg? I didn't know socks hatched from eggs." "Only the best ones do. I can't wear the cheap kind, the ones that grow on trees. They give me blisters. ...more
Polly Shulman, The Grimm Legacy

The verb 'to darn' is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: 'To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with thread and needle.' But this definition does not correspond to the work accomplished by good Chinese housewives. When they mend a sock, they do not try 'to imitate the texture of the stuff'. Their art makes no attempt at concealment: it even takes a certain pride in revealing itself. ...more
Daniele Varè, The Maker of Heavenly Trousers

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