Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This is the third video in the historical sewing for beginners playlist series. Often one can have the desire, passion, and even motivation to pursue a new hobby like historical sewing, but might feel overwhelmed about where to start. This video offers a series of tips and tricks to help you get motivated to begin your historical sewing journey. Whether you intend to create garments by hand or by machine, knowing this information could assist in steering you in the right direction, along with bringing clarity to a sometimes frustrating topic. I want to encourage each and every one of you to pursue historical sewing if you have the desire. As the thumbnail says, I've only been sewing for 7 months (since August 2020) and I was able to hand sew this ensemble (and others) with a lot of practice, desire, interest, and most of all patience. You, too, can make beautiful historical dress that you love to wear, and it does not have to take many years of work and practice to make a pleasantly wearable garment that makes you feel confident!
To learn more about historical fabric care, check out my crash course video: youtu.be/laDmj17cYSk
Thank you so much for watching and please be sure to like and subscribe to get notified about future videos in this historical sewing for beginners series.
A quick disclaimer, I am in no way affiliated with any of the products or brands mentioned in this video, I just genuinely like and support these products.
🕯 Support my art on Patreon: patreon.com/vbirchwood
✨ Leave a donation: ko-fi.com/vbirchwood
🌙 Books I read, supplies I use, gear I film with (affiliate links): amazon.com/shop/v.birchwood
🪡 Follow me on Instagram: instagram.com/vasibirchwood
📖 Business inquiries: sofie@helmtalentgroup.com
All external images used in this video are in the public domain:
1. collections.lacma.org/node/214043
Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Deux Siècles de Mode Européenne, 1700-1915. Paris: Arts Décoratifs; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books-Prestel, 2013.
2. collections.lacma.org/node/214438
Steele, Valerie, ed. Pink: the History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2018.
3. collections.lacma.org/node/214619
Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Deux Siècles de Mode Européenne, 1700-1915. Paris: Arts Décoratifs; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books-Prestel, 2013.
Music sourced from epidemicsound.com.
1. And We Walk After: Trevor Kowalski
2. Supine: Peter Sandberg
#historicalsewingforbeginners #historicaldress #historicalsewing #historicalfashionyoutubers
This is the third video in the historical sewing for beginners playlist series. Often one can have the desire, passion, and even motivation to pursue a new hobby like historical sewing, but might feel overwhelmed about where to start. This video offers a series of tips and tricks to help you get motivated to begin your historical sewing journey. Whether you intend to create garments by hand or by machine, knowing this information could assist in steering you in the right direction, along with bringing clarity to a sometimes frustrating topic. I want to encourage each and every one of you to pursue historical sewing if you have the desire. As the thumbnail says, I've only been sewing for 7 months (since August 2020) and I was able to hand sew this ensemble (and others) with a lot of practice, desire, interest, and most of all patience. You, too, can make beautiful historical dress that you love to wear, and it does not have to take many years of work and practice to make a pleasantly wearable garment that makes you feel confident!
To learn more about historical fabric care, check out my crash course video: youtu.be/laDmj17cYSk
Thank you so much for watching and please be sure to like and subscribe to get notified about future videos in this historical sewing for beginners series.
A quick disclaimer, I am in no way affiliated with any of the products or brands mentioned in this video, I just genuinely like and support these products.
🕯 Support my art on Patreon: patreon.com/vbirchwood
✨ Leave a donation: ko-fi.com/vbirchwood
🌙 Books I read, supplies I use, gear I film with (affiliate links): amazon.com/shop/v.birchwood
🪡 Follow me on Instagram: instagram.com/vasibirchwood
📖 Business inquiries: sofie@helmtalentgroup.com
All external images used in this video are in the public domain:
1. collections.lacma.org/node/214043
Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Deux Siècles de Mode Européenne, 1700-1915. Paris: Arts Décoratifs; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books-Prestel, 2013.
2. collections.lacma.org/node/214438
Steele, Valerie, ed. Pink: the History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2018.
3. collections.lacma.org/node/214619
Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Deux Siècles de Mode Européenne, 1700-1915. Paris: Arts Décoratifs; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books-Prestel, 2013.
Music sourced from epidemicsound.com.
1. And We Walk After: Trevor Kowalski
2. Supine: Peter Sandberg
#historicalsewingforbeginners #historicaldress #historicalsewing #historicalfashionyoutubers
