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.

Gavyn Meadows is well on his way to learning something new every day. He has taken the first step to learning the basics of sewing, and the summer has just begun. Gavyn, decked out in his Zachary ...

Margarita Garcia of Maplewood smiled broadly as she showed off a small cloth bag that could hold pencils, makeup or a cellphone. It looks deceptively simple, but to create it she had to learn to make ...

A partnership with The Wallace Foundation helped make Boys & Girls Club fashion studio possible Students must learn basic skills to advance in course; the club has set high expectations Teacher Amy ...

Cora Sanderson and Meghan Meeker, both 10 and Lutz Preparatory School fifth-graders, settled down to sewing machines in Annella Martin Foshee’s home, ready for instructions about what they would ...

Hayden Levy's big dreams sprang from dressing up her little Barbie dolls. "I liked making clothes out of paper for them," says the 8-year-old third-grader from Roslyn. "I told my mom I wanted to be a ...

Editor’s Note: CNN’s Schools of Thought blog looks at the high-tech return of high school shop class. By day, Scott Loeser works from home for a company based in Hong Kong, selling stationery and ...