Featured On-Demand Hand-Sewing Classes:
Learn to hand-stitch a basic tunic from simple rectangles and squares! This is an easy project to practice your hand-sewing skills to create a beautiful garment while minimizing textile waste. Using pre-recorded instruction this class provides a materials and supplies list, basic hand-sewing instruction, design guidance, cutting and stitching instruction. The goal of the class is to empower you to get creative and sew a variety of designs using the theories taught in this class. $45.00
This on-demand class teaches how-to hand-sew a linen apron based on white linen aprons worn during the second half of the eighteenth century in the Atlantic World. This apron is for costumers, living historians and anyone who loves the aesthetic and function of linen. Think cottage-core and harvesting lavender in the garden. For beginners to experienced hand-stitchers. Pay what you can: Suggested price: $45.00 SEWAPRON25 for $33.75 SEWAPRON50 for $22.50 SEWAPRON75 for $11.25
In this pre-recorded workshop you will learn how to sew five samples of hand-sewn, self-finished seams. No need for a serger here! We will practice a mantua-maker’s hem (seam), butted seams, a double felled seam known as German hemming, flat-felled seam with a backstitch and a flat-felled seam with a running stitch/backstitch combination. The five seams taught are perfect for unlined garments both historical or modern. The class will go over applications for each seaming technique.
Make do and mend! The most eco-friendly choice for your slow-fashion wardrobe is to mend and re-wear you clothing. This course uses hand-sewn mending techniques to mend holes in your clothes and re-sew seams to revive your wardrobe! This class covers: 1) How to mend a hole with a patch in an invisible manner. 2) How to re-weave a hole in an invisible manner. 3) How to re-sew a seam. Please note: This class does not cover visible mending or darning of knits.
Want to hand-sew a set of reusable linen napkins? This pre-recorded class will teach you how to cut napkins without a pattern and hem them without a sewing machine! Designed for a beginner to an experienced hand-stitcher. With pre-recored videos you can go at your own pace. $30.00
In this pre-recorded workshop you will learn how to make a simple, hand-sewn petticoat inspired by the designs worn in The Atlantic World, c.1760-1785. We will be using a light-weight fabric such as linen, linen/cotton, wool/cotton, linen/wool or worsted wool. This petticoat is intended to not be worn over hoops and is ideal for wearing in a hot climate or for physical work.
Learn historical hand sewing gathering techniques without using a sewing machine! This pre-recorded class walks you through stroke gathers and rolled-whipped gathers. $30.00
Sewn is part of a lineage. For over 30,000 years clothing has been hand-stitched. Quilting for comfort, hemmed in bondage, seaming for profit or embroidered for enjoyment, hand sewing has stitched together humanity. Rooted in an historical hand-sewing practice— Sewn’s goal is to reconnect you to yourself, your past and your global community with a needle and thread. Learn to sew from the past, to be mindful of the present, to stitch a better future.
Remember what your hands can do.
PRE-RECORDED HAND SEWING CLASSES
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FREE HAND SEWING TUTORIALS
Learn to sew from the past, to be mindful of the present, to stitch a better future.
