Sewing is one of the very oldest of the textile arts.  I love sewing though I wish I was more skilled at it.
I would love to be able to sew, but am not very good. My Mom was great at it. What sort of things do you sew?
I mend clothes using a sewing machine, though for many years all sewing was only done by hand.
I was taught hand sewing when I was young. I made a skirt - didn't turn out very well. Any ideas about the history of sewing?
Sewing has a long history - even before weaving fabric was invented, people sewed fur and skins together.
I didn't realize that, but it does make sense. When was the sewing machine invented, I wonder?
The sewing machine is generally thought to be invented by Thomas Saint in 1790.  It's made a HUGE difference is sewing productivity.
I can imagine and even people like me would have managed to use one!
. In a modern sewing machine the fabric easily glides in and out of the machine without the inconvenience of needles and thimbles and other such tools used in hand sewing, automating the process of stitching and saving time.
Industrial sewing machines, by contrast to domestic machines, are larger, faster, and more varied in their size, cost, appearance, and task.
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Charles Fredrick Weisenthal, a German-born engineer working in England was awarded the first British patent for a mechanical device
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