Crafts

Sewing

Citation Formats

General Reference

Home, Crafts and Hobbies Atlas. "Sewing." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-home.interactiveatlas.org/crafts/sewing.

APA Style

Home, Crafts and Hobbies Atlas. (n.d.). Sewing. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-home.interactiveatlas.org/crafts/sewing

BibTeX

@misc{home,craftsandhobbiesatlas-sewing,
  author = {Home, Crafts and Hobbies Atlas},
  title = {Sewing},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-home.interactiveatlas.org/crafts/sewing},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Joining material with needle and thread: the oldest of the textile arts, older than spinning or weaving, born in the Paleolithic when hides and furs were first stitched into clothing. Every garment, sail, book binding and quilt descends from it, and hand sewing remains the foundation skill of the home needle arts.

Facts

Craft Class

Fiber and Textile 1

Earliest Evidence (Circa)

Paleolithic; bone and antler needles predate woven cloth, used to stitch skins and furs 1

Origin

Sewing as a practice is far older than the word for it: people were stitching hides with bone and antler needles in the Paleolithic, but the English word sewing itself is not recorded until the fourteenth century. 1

Cross-Tradition Connections