Loose! hanging! Casual – these adjectives describing the nighty makes it the ideal dress for girls to wear at home in the summer. Once you have stitched one, you will want to make one for every night ...

There are many types of pleats, but the types below are the most popular and the most commonly used pleats. Pleats are folds formed in fabric, usually to contain a wide piece of fabric to fit another ...

There are no end to sewing projects where some lengths of bias binding tape could be of use. The binding tape can beautifully embellish the edges of your sewing fabrics in many ways. I use it to bind ...

Do you know that earlier collars were mostly detachable from clothes? Today collars are integral parts of most of our clothing. It frames the face, keeps your neck warm, and gives the whole garment ...

Why do women love bags so much? Interesting question, but like many interesting questions, this one also does not have a clear answer. Bags are such a craze for some that they are even willing to pay ...

A period between 1200 BC to 320 BC is considered to be the golden time period of the Greek civilization. It is said to have influenced all the western civilizations that came later and is an ...

I can picture in my mind those Kutchi women sitting on their doorstep doing these beautiful intricate embroideries, all the while waiting for their men have gone cattle grazing. When you think of ...

Have you ever felt fed up when you had to stop in the middle of a supermarket shopping and go back to the car to breastfeed your baby? Or had to skip a get together because you felt there wouldn’t be ...

On some fabrics, you would rather not sew much, not even fasteners – like leather, thick faux leather, other coated materials. But what do you do when you have to have a fastener? A metal prong snaps ...

Watching countless Korean historical drama series does not make one an expert in Korean clothing. But it did make me highly interested and invested in it. And then reading about it opened up a world ...

Bias tape, a strip of fabric that has been cut along the bias grain of the fabric and folded is available in shops in all its avatars, shapes, sizes and colors but when you want to make it with the ...

Morocco is a mountainous country in North Africa, bordering North Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea and directly across the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain. It is the most westerly of North African ...