When I was 16 and newly minted with a South Carolina driver's license, I signed up for my first sewing class. After a few days of sessions, my long-suffering instructor picked up my pillowcase, ...

Do you have a sewing machine at home? The birth of these machines not only revolutionised the sewing industry, but also ensured the beginning of the first proper sewing machine industry. Credit for ...

For most of us, an image of a woman stoically engaged in needlework is just another overused movie trope. But there was a time when stitching a pair of trousers took over four days, and women spent ...

13 June is National Sewing Machine Day, a day that honours the invention of the sewing machine, which eliminated having to sew things together by hand – stitch by stitch. Thomas Saint, a skilled ...