Vintage Sewing Collectibles

Sewing is an ancient craft involving the stitching of cloth, leather, animal skins, furs, or other materials, using needle and thread. Sewing is used primarily to produce clothing and household furnishings as curtains, bedclothes, upholstery, and table linens. It is also used for sails, bellows, skin boats, and other items shaped out of flexible materials such as canvas and leather.

The following is a list different types of stitches: back tack, backstitch, basting stitch for temporary fixing, blanket stitch, blind stitch, buttonhole stitch, chain stitch, cross-stitch, feather stitch, hemming stitch, lockstitch, overlock, padding stitch, running stitch, sailmakers stitch, slip stitch, straight stitch, topstitch, whipstitch and zig-zag stitch. Occupations requiring sewing skills include: Dressmaker, Tailor, Hatter, Corsetier, Glover, Cobbler, Upholsterer, Draper, Sailmaker and Quilting.