Seated close to the sewing machine, Tilla Biswa concentrated on making her first stitches as Jeannie Sollom, a volunteer teacher, coached her. “That’s good,” Sollom said, as the young woman from Nepal ...
Long before basic sewing needle options evolved as “sharps” or “betweens,” cave-era folks simply threaded bone shard and animal horn with sinew or plant fiber to stitch animal skins into outerwear.