I’ve been sewing off and on since I was a kid, and I really started to get into it about ten years ago. Even though I technically outgrew my little 3/4 size domestic machine pretty quickly, I kept ...

This could probably be any of our grandmothers at work. George Grantham Bain Collection [PD], via Wikimedia Commons. In our hackspace, we’ve opened a textile room in the last month. We have high hopes ...

Not gonna lie: Sewing is a little intimidating. All those needles flying and fabric billowing—not to mention the seemingly complicated machinery—can be scary for someone who's never even attempted to ...

Q. Enclosed is a photo of a Singer treadle sewing machine with cabinet that belonged to my grandmother. It is their model 66 and was manufactured Aug. 25, 1920. She spent many hours sewing for herself ...

Enfield resident Victoria Hellberg was a young girl when her grandmother taught her how to sew. “I was 11 or 12 when my grandma began to teach me … she bought me my first sewing machine,” Hellberg ...

Yomi Makun, the younger brother of celebrated comedian, AY, has been in the fashion business for 10 years. In this interview with OVWE MEDEME, he talks about his early days and how a chance happening ...

Author Martha Stewart writes in our 101 Objects Special Issue: Isaac Merritt Singer's sewing machine was a vast improvement upon earlier versions, capable of 900 stitches a minute -at a time when the ...