Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture<\/a> in Paris that gives permission to label collections as such.<\/p>\n <\/noscript>Haute Couture, however, suffers from a diminishing clientele largely because of its exorbitant prices. \u00a0Over the past century, the number of couture houses has already declined significantly. Does this mean that we are losing the art of hand sewing? \u00a0There is a small group of hand sewists who are giving the art a revival of sorts and hopefully, their tribe will increase. \u00a0And because of them, we cannot definitely say that hand sewing is a lost art.<\/p>\nDo you still practice hand sewing? \u00a0Please share your experiences in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Considered as one of the oldest kinds of textile arts, hand sewing started during the Paleolithic Age, when Stone Age people made clothes out of fur and skin. \u00a0We published an article recently tracing the origins of sewing back over 25,000 years to the very beginning. I Love You with \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":26018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[161,15,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26006"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65511,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26006\/revisions\/65511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}