📚 Sewing

Making and mending by needle: technique, dressmaking, and the machine that changed both.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject sewing in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Sewing made easy	Mary Lynch	1950	10
	A guide to fashion sewing	Connie Amaden-Crawford	1986	10
	Household sewing with home dressmaking	Bertha Banner	1898	9
	Successful sewing	Mary G. Westfall	1987	8
	School sewing based on home problems	Ida Robinson Burton	1916	7
	The complete encyclopedia of stitchery	Mildred Graves Ryan	1979	7
	The sewing book	Ann Ladbury	1985	7
	The complete book of sewing	Constance Talbot	1943	6
	Non-adhesive binding	Keith A. Smith	1990	6
	Home and school sewing	Frances Patton	1901	5
	Coates sewing and dress making manual ..	Lydia Trattles Coates	1912	5
	The complete book of sewing shortcuts	Claire B. Shaeffer	1981	5
	Teach Yourself Visually Fashion Sewing	Carole Ann Camp	2011	5
	The dressmaking book	Adele P. Margolis	1967	4
	Sewing made easy	Dorothy Sara	1969	4
	The illustrated hassle-free make your own clothes book	Sharon Rosenberg	1971	4
	Mother Pletsch's painless sewing	Pati Palmer	1975	4
	Short Cuts for Busy Dressmakers	Ann Ladbury	1980	4
	My First Sewing Book	Winky Cherry	1984	4
	The encyclopedia of sewing techniques	Jan Eaton	1987	4
	The Vogue/Butterick step-by-step guide to sewing techniques	Butterick Company	1989	4
	Sewing for dummies	Janice Saunders Maresh	1999	4
	24-Hour Sewing Projects	Linda Causee	2007	4
	Practical sewing and dressmaking	Sara May Allington	1913	3
	Making smart clothes	Butterick publishing company.	1930	3
	Coats & Clark's sewing book	Coats & Clark	1967	3
	The Vogue sewing book.	Elizabeth J. Musheno	1975	3
	The busy woman's sewing book	Nancy Luedtke Zieman	1984	3
	The sewing machine handbook	Peter Lucking	1985	3
	Sewing update 1988	MCGRAW-HILL SCHOOL	1988	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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