The history of needleworking, clothes making, and hat making spans thousands of years, reflecting humanity’s ingenuity, culture, and artistry. Early forms of needlework date back to prehistoric times, when animal sinew and bone needles were used to stitch hides for protection. As civilizations advanced, sewing evolved into a skilled craft and decorative art, with embroidery, quilting, and lacework showcasing cultural identity and social status. Clothes making developed alongside this, moving from hand-sewn garments to tailored clothing as weaving, spinning, and fabric production improved. By the Middle Ages and Renaissance, guilds of tailors and milliners formalized these trades, producing finely crafted garments and accessories for nobility and commoners alike. Hat making, or millinery, became an important part of fashion history, with styles reflecting social class, profession, and personal taste. The Industrial Revolution transformed all these crafts with the invention of the sewing machine and mass production, making clothing and hats more accessible. Today, while much of garment and hat production is mechanized, traditional needlework and millinery remain valued art forms, celebrated for their creativity, heritage, and craftsmanship.
All of the book titles that are included in this DVD are listed as follows:
A complete course in dressmaking (1922).pdf
A sewing course for teachers, comprising directions for making the various stitch_20120802152912669.pdf
Art in dress (1922).pdf
Baughman's advanced hints on dress cutting (1892).pdf
Bayne's self-instruction book for dress cutting by the French glove-fitting tailor system (1883).pdf
Casneau's guide for artistic dress cutting and making (1895).pdf
Clothing and health _ an elementary textbook of home making (1919).pdf
Clothing for women_ selection, design, construction_ a practical manual for school and home (1919).pdf
Dress fitting made easy (1892).pdf
Dressmaking and millinery (1916).pdf
Dressmaking self taught in twenty complete lessons (1911).pdf
Efficiency in clothing (1921).pdf
Efficiency, simplicity, economy in cutting and making ladies' garments (1917).pdf
Garment cutting self-taught (1889).pdf
Garments for girls (1919).pdf
Handbook on dress and cloak cutting (1884).pdf
Home and school sewing (1901).pdf
Home dressmaking and the art of good dressing (1899).pdf
Home dressmaking made easy (1903).pdf
Home dressmaking_ a complete guide to household sewing (1892).pdf
Household Sewing with Home Dressmaking (1898).pdf
How to make over old dresses (1892).pdf
How to sew (1904).pdf
Instruction book (1903).pdf
Instruction book of Bisbee's American tailor system of dress cutting (1895).pdf
Instructions in dressmaking, basting and fitting (1884).pdf
Manual of apparel drafting and sewing (1914).pdf
Manual of exercises in hand sewing (1904).pdf
Miss Leslie's lady's house-book_ a manual of domestic economy containing approved_20120802152912689.pdf
Mrs. Herbert's scientific system of dress cutting, for self-instruction (1897).pdf
New teacher of ladies' home tailoring (1910).pdf
Parisian Ladies Tailoring System (1917).pdf
Points on dress cutting and fitting (1890).pdf
Practical sewing and dressmaking (1913).pdf
School sewing based on home problems (1916).pdf
Scientific Dress Cutting & Making (1902).pdf
Sewing and textiles (1921).pdf
Sewing for girls' club work (1919).pdf
Sewing for Little Girls (1911).pdf
Sewing machines (1922).pdf
Shelter and clothing_ a textbook of the household arts (1913).pdf
Simplified pattern cutting_ a new and easy method (1918).pdf
Studies in plain needlework and amateur dressmaking (1887).pdf
Suggestions for dressmakers (1896).pdf
Textiles and clothing (1910).pdf
Textiles and clothing (1919).pdf
Textiles and costume design (1917).pdf
Textiles_ a handbook for the student and the consumer (1913).pdf
The American garment cutter (1908).pdf
The American garment cutter for women's garments (1913).pdf
The American lady-tailor glove-fitting system of dress making (1884).pdf
The American metrical system for cutting ladies' and children's dresses and all c_20120802152912699.pdf
The American system of dressmaking (1909).pdf
The art of Columbian art ribbon-work (1895).pdf
The art of dressmaking at home and in the workroom (1903).pdf
The dress you wear and how to make it (1918).pdf
The dressmaker (1911).pdf
The elements of modern dressmaking for the amateur and professional dressmaker (1894).pdf
The Expert Designer (1917).pdf
The home dressmakers' guide (1919).pdf
The Keystone jacket and dress cutter. A treatise on jackets, dresses and other ga_20120802152912699.pdf
The National garment cutter (1884).pdf
The new dressmaker (1921).pdf
The perfect dress fitter Complete instructions in the art of cutting all kinds of garments (1890).pdf
The practical designer (1918).pdf
The practical designer for women's and misses' underwear (1918).pdf
The secret of successful tailoring (1910).pdf
The self-balancing system of cutting ladies' garments (1891).pdf
Twentieth century instruction book_ artistic ladies' tailor system (1902).pdf
Weidel's Instruction Book (1910).pdf
Work's ladies' tailor system_ a self instructor in the art of cutting and fitting_20120802152912699.pdf
A complete course in millinery (1919).pdf
A seasonal industry, a study of the millinery trade in New York (1917).pdf
A short treatise on head wear, ancient and modern (1885).pdf
A treatise on hat-making and felting (1868).pdf
Complete guide to millinery of Kintzel millinery school (1915).pdf
Dressmaking and millinery (1916).pdf
Fine millinery fall and winter styles for ladies, misses and children, 1899-1900. (1899).pdf
Home millinery course_ a thorough, practical and complete series of lessons (1909).pdf
Home millinery, Madame Margariete's manual (1920).pdf
How to handle hats (1905).pdf
Le petit maŒtre (1896).pdf
Lloyd's treatise on hats with twenty-four engravings (1819).pdf
Make your own hats (1921).pdf
Millinery (1922).pdf
Modern millinery_ a workroom text book containing complete instruction in the wor_20120802152912709.pdf
Scientific hat finishing and renovating (1919).pdf
Straw hats, their history and manufacture (1922).pdf
The chemistry of hat manufacturing_ lectures delivered before the Hat Manufacture_20120802153002559.pdf
The hand-book of millinery. To which is appended an essay on corset making (1847).pdf
The Ladies' self instructor in millinery and mantua making, embroidery and appliq_20120802153002569.pdf
The Latest Styles Of Hats And Bonnets (1895).pdf
The milliner's guide, a complete handy reference book for the workroom, embraces _20120802153002569.pdf
A book of old embroidery (1921).pdf
A choice collection of patterns for needle-work (1880).pdf
A handbook of elementary sewing (1915).pdf
A manual of needlework, knitting and cutting out for evening continuation schools (1894).pdf
A treatise on lace-making and embroidery, with Barbour's Irish flax thread (1900).pdf
A treatise on the science, art and designs of drawn work (1897).pdf
American samplers (1921).pdf
Art in needlework_ a book about embroidery (1900).pdf
Art needlework (1891).pdf
Art-needlework for decorative embroidery (1879).pdf
Artamo crochet book (1916).pdf
Artistic embroidery_ containing practical instructions in the ornamental branches_20120802153002569.pdf
Chats on old lace and needlework (1919).pdf
Church needlework with practical remarks on its arrangement and preparation (1844).pdf
Clark's O. N. T. book of needlework (1916).pdf
Collingbourne's encyclopedia of technologic art needle work instruction (1915).pdf
Complete sewing instructions (1917).pdf
Corticelli Home Needlework 1898.pdf
Dainty work for pleasure and profit (1891).pdf
Decorative needlework (1893).pdf
Decorative textiles (1918).pdf
Designing for art-needlework_ (1915).pdf
Designs and patterns for needle work (1883).pdf
Designs for Hardanger embroidery (1904).pdf
Designs for Mexican drawn-work (1893).pdf
Designs for needlework (1900).pdf
Designs in outline for art-needlework (1879).pdf
Devon pillow lace its history and how to make it (1908).pdf
Doylies (1893).pdf
Drawn thread work (1900).pdf
Educational needlecraft (1911).pdf
Embroidery lessons with colored studies (1907).pdf
Embroidery or, The craft of the needle (1907).pdf
Embroidery stitches (1912).pdf
English embroidered bookbindings (1899).pdf
English embroidery (1905).pdf
Guide to needlework (1876).pdf
Hand sewing lessons_ a graded course for schools and for the home (1905).pdf
Hardanger art needle work (1904).pdf
How to use Florence knitting silk (1885).pdf
Ingalls' manual of fancy work (1882).pdf
Instructions for lace making (1878).pdf
Jacobean embroidery, its forms and fillings including late Tudor (1912).pdf
Khaki knitting book (1917).pdf
Knitting and crocheting (1885).pdf
Knitting And Sewing (1918).pdf
Knitting without specimens_ the modern book of school knitting and crochet (1915).pdf
Lace album_ a series of twenty-six plates of designs for lace (1878).pdf
Lace and lace making (1917).pdf
Lace making and collecting an elementary handbook (1909).pdf
Lace-making with crochet hook and knitting needles (1900).pdf
Ladies' fancy work (1885).pdf
Lessons in fancy work (1885).pdf
Manual of needlework (1883).pdf
My knitting book (1843).pdf
Needlework as art (1886).pdf
Norwegian drawn work (Hardanger) (1905).pdf
Old point lace and how to copy and imitate it (1878).pdf
Point and pillow lace_ a short account of various kinds, ancient and modern, and _20120802153002589.pdf
Premium art book (1908).pdf
Princess Yoke Book (1916).pdf
Priscilla wool crochet book (1912).pdf
Progressive lessons in the art and practice of needlework for use in schools (1893).pdf
Samplers & tapestry embroideries (1913).pdf
School needlework_ a book written for the beginner of any age and in any school (1922).pdf
Singer instructions for art embroidery (1911).pdf
Spool knitting (1909).pdf
Teneriffe lace designs and instructions (1904).pdf
Text-book on domestic art, with illustrations and drafts (1911).pdf
The art of modern lace-making (1891).pdf
The cult of the needle (1915).pdf
The development of embroidery in America (1921).pdf
The Dictionary of Needlework (1885) vol 1.pdf
The Dictionary of Needlework (1885) vol 2.pdf
The Dictionary of Needlework (1885) vol 3.pdf
The Dictionary of Needlework (1885) vol 4.pdf
The Dictionary of Needlework (1885) vol 5.pdf
The Dictionary of Needlework (1885) vol 6.pdf
The embroidery guide (1910).pdf
The glossilla book of crochet novelties (1912).pdf
The handbook of needlework (1842).pdf
The Home Needle (1882).pdf
The illuminated book of needlework comprising knitting, netting, crochet, and embroidery (1847).pdf
The illuminated ladies' book of useful and ornamental needlework (1844).pdf
The ladies' hand book of fancy and ornamental work (1859).pdf
The ladies' hand book of needle work (1879).pdf
The ladies' knitting and netting book (1840).pdf
The ladies' work-table book (1844).pdf
The lady's book of useful and ornamental crochet work (1848).pdf
The Mary Frances knitting and crocheting book (1918).pdf
The new lace embroidery (1905).pdf
The one-eyed weaver being an information concerning the versatility of the needle (1900).pdf
The Priscilla baby book (1915).pdf
The Priscilla Battenberg and point lace book_ a collection of lace stitches with _20120802153002599.pdf
The Priscilla Crochet Book (1908).pdf
The Priscilla crochet book, centerpieces and doilies (1915).pdf
The Priscilla crochet book, edgings and insertions_ a collection of beautiful and_20120802153002599.pdf
The Priscilla drawn work book_ a collection of beautiful designs (1909).pdf
The Priscilla Filet Crochet Book (1911).pdf
The Priscilla Hardanger book_ a collection of beautiful designs in Hardanger embroidery (1909).pdf
The Priscilla needlework book (1908).pdf
The Priscilla Netting Book (1914).pdf
The Priscilla smocking book, a collection of beautiful and useful patterns, with _20120802153002599.pdf
The Priscilla tatting book (1909).pdf
The Sunlight book of knitting and crocheting (1915).pdf
The Young Ladies' Journal Complete Guide to the Work-Table (1888).pdf
Twine Crochet Work (1883).pdf
Utopia yarn book_ being a practical treatise on knitting and crocheting (1919).pdf
Weldons needlework old & new (1900).pdf