How children learned to sew years ago

December 3, 2014 by Anne Weaver 3 Comments

There are plenty of books and products designed to help kids learn to sew. This isn’t a new thing – they’ve been around for years, Mary Beth from Retro Monkeys gives a history of these products and lessons at the Pattern Patter blog. She includes photos of vintage sewing notebooks (with the child’s stitching included), miniature mannequins (fashion dolls), and sewing cards.

Click below to go to her post:

Teaching Tools – The History of Teaching Children to Sew, by Retro Monkeys

[photo from Retro Monkeys on Pattern Patter]

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Catherine Johnson says
December 5, 2014 at 10:55 am
Very interesting article! Thanks for sharing.
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Mary Beth says
December 5, 2014 at 6:36 pm
Thank you so much for sharing! It was a fun one to do.
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adelebeeannpatterns says
December 8, 2014 at 6:43 am
Thanks for this post.
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