"Sewing patterns have been the principle blueprint for making garments in the home for centuries. From their origins in the tailoring manuals of the 16th century to the widely produced pamphlets of ...

When some of us hear the word 'pattern', we can immediately feel the texture of fine paper and the anxiety of losing one of the pieces; can hear the distant whirr of a sewing machine. A small personal ...

Television programmes and YouTube tutorials are inspiring millions of people to make their own clothes First came the home-baking revival, which prompted trays, tins and icing accoutrements to fly off ...

The internet did little to disrupt it. Globalization could not shut it down. But while the McCall Pattern Company, the home-sewing brand founded in 1863, may seem like a business that time forgot, it ...

A free exhibition exploring the history of home dressmaking has opened in Loughborough. The Cut and Create exhibition, at Charnwood Museum, features items of clothing, sewing equipment and dress ...