11 vintage sewing books you should have on your shelf
My sewing library is filled with vintage sewing books, magazine and supplements because I love and enjoy working with vintage sewing patterns. That’s not to say my shelves don’t contain new books, because they do, I just believe it’s important to have a good mixture of both. Plus, you can’t really work with vintage sewing patterns if you don’t have vintage sewing books.
Here are some of my favorite vintage sewing books:
- Clothing for Women: Selection, Design, Construction: A Practical Manual for School and Home.
- Clothing Construction
- Reader’s Digest Complete Guide to Sewing
- Singer Sewing Book
- Coates & Clark’s Sewing Book
- Simplicity’s Simply The Best Sewing Book
- Sewing Made Easy
- The Complete Book of Sewing
- How to Make Clothes that Fit and Flatter
- The Vogue Sewing Book
- McCall’s New Complete Book of Sewing and Dressmaking
For more information
My favorite list of newer sewing books
Let’s talk sewing book collections by the numbers
I have 9 of the 11.
(and hundreds more that I really need to part with lest I appear on a documentary about insane levels of hoarding)
@ZipZap-Wow, 9 out of 11! Which are you missing? And I know a little bit about hoarding myself. It’s hard to part with our treasures, isn’t it?