Quilt patterns by Amanda Jane Textiles – Page 19

How to Sew on a Button

This is the second of the Basic Sewing Skills posts this year (find the first on how to thread a needle and make a knot in your thread here). A button coming off a garment should never be a reason to just throw it away. Sewing on a button is not difficult. How to sew aContinueContinue reading “How to Sew on a Button”

‘The Fabric of Democracy’ exhibition 2023

Today I’d like to share with you some photos from ‘The Fabric of Democracy’ exhibition 2023 at the Fashion and Textile Museum, London. It illustrates – with a wide range of examples – ways in which textiles reflected political upheaval, were used for propaganda or functioned as a method of resistance, This beautiful 1914 lace panelContinueContinue reading “‘The Fabric of Democracy’ exhibition 2023”