Sewing machines, threads, button boxes and fabric swathes have always held a nostalgia for me. At my late Granny Margaret’s home in the 1980s, boxes of buttons, beads and threads were something I ...
It’s not the only life skill that has lapsed. While Gen Z can edit a TikTok video in seconds, when it comes to basic DIY they’d rather pay someone to change a lightbulb or hang a picture than do it ...
According to the Museum of the City of New York, a garment worker in 1905 was expected to sew at a rate twice that of her 1900 counterpart. The factories had scant safety or fire protection, mandated ...