Shelly Figueroa isn't limited to what a handful of big-box retailers, with their racks of fluorescent-lit garments, decide Americans should wear. Instead, the Lake Oswego pattern designer makes ...

Beginner Natasha Dominguez uses a pattern template to learn new stitches during the Radical Sewing Club in Huntington Park. On a balmy summer evening, Sary Gil of Norwalk tediously repairs one of his ...

A new sewing technology has entered the fashion space — and it’s the first innovation in over a century. A system called Ditto allows anyone to seamlessly create custom looks using the power of ...

On the third floor of a Spanish-style office building in Santa Barbara, Calif., Cara Austine-Rademaker is spotlighting a little-appreciated aspect of fashion history that had a big impact. Dressmaking ...

Candice Hodgin received a sewing machine from a relative and said she’s “just itching to use it.” She wants to make fashionable skirts, tailor her jeans, mend clothes and churn out curtains, pillows ...

Artificial intelligence can turn a single photo of an item of clothing being worn into accurate sewing patterns to recreate the garment. Clothing makers use sewing patterns to create the differently ...

For many sewers, choosing paper patterns from one of Simplicity McCall’s ‘big four’ brands was an in-store ritual. But others say digital patterns are the way of the future Decades ago, in the ...

Rosario Calatayud-Serna uses a pattern template to learn new stitches during the Radical Sewing Club in Huntington Park. For the record: 12:07 p.m. Aug. 9, 2024: An earlier photo caption stated ...