If you're a sewing beginner, there are a few key techniques you need to learn before you can start making your own clothes and accessories from your home. One of those is learning to how to thread a ...

Beneath the needle (as the GIF shows at a very slowed down speed) a hook rotates, capturing the thread from above and looping it around another thread, this one reeling from the bobbin below. The ...

1846: Elias Howe patents the first practical sewing machine and threads his way into the fabric of history. French tailor Barthelemy Thimonnier patented a device in 1830 that mechanized the ...