I have started to learn how to sew so that I could fix pairs of pants that I had ripped
 Sewing is one of the oldest of the textile arts dating back to the Paleolitihic era, hope you fix does pants
These pesky buttons always get loose.  Instead of spending money to buy new ones, this is much cheaper
Before the invention of spinning yarn or weaving fabric, archaeologists believe Stone Age people used bone or ivory needles
wow, those stone age cavemen were some crafty people
Stone Age
The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make implements with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted roughly 3.4 million years and ended between 8700 BCE and 2000 BCE with the advent of metalworking.
Stone Age artifacts include tools used by modern humans and by their predecessor species in the genus "Homo", and possibly by the earlier partly contemporaneous genera "Australopithecus" and "Paranthropus". Bone tools were used during this period as well
people from rural Virginia spoke about their clothes made from sacks during the depression. "Back then, feed was sold in sacks. I believe they held almost 100 pounds of seeds. A number of farmers who didn't sew returned the sacks for resale... I actually made hair bows, pants and dresses from the sacks." "Mama always sewed on a Singer treadle sewing machine and made our dresses from flour sacks. She made sure Dad would get two sacks just alike. That was what the pattern took to make