Long before basic sewing needle options evolved as “sharps” or “betweens,” cave-era folks simply threaded bone shard and animal horn with sinew or plant fiber to stitch animal skins into outerwear.

GOSS AND SEW: Kim Thomas made this summer dress in class - dressmaking classes are becoming increasingly popular in New Zealand. Photo: STACY SQUIRES / The Press A dressmaking night class has plenty ...

Peta Cripps, of the award-winning Peta C Dressmaking, is partly responsible for the resurgence of sewing in Townsville. “There certainly has been a lot of renewed interest in Townsville to learn ...

In the current age when many people can't sew a button on a shirt, Dinah Vincent's PhD thesis reveals a not-too-distant era when dressmaking was a defining, even vital, skill for many New Zealand ...