Sewing Skills Research Articles

Making (Slowly) as Method: Piecing, Stitching and Steeping Metaphors for Multiple Methodologies

How and what do we make through method? This paper imagines the processes of designing and carrying out socio-environmental research through the lens of a slow, creative craft form: sewing a patchworked piece from hand-dyed fabric samples. In doing so, it contributes to thinking about how methodologies are pieced and stitched together from multiple parts. Based on early findings from an extended research project exploring the practice of natural textile dyeing in the UK, I offer a range of textile processes for thinking through the creative dimensions of the doing of methodological work. The quilt-like piece I am attempting to make from plant-dyed fabric is at once the object, objective, and method in this study. I draw on auto-ethnographic reflections on my attempts to begin learning natural dyeing and sewing skills, suggesting piecing, stitching, and steeping may be useful, tactile metaphors for thinking through the early, often messy and uncertain stages of multi-sited and multi-method qualitative research. As such, I build on and extend recent discussions about ‘patchwork ethnography’, an approach recognising that the realities of ethnographic research in practice are often fragmented, non-linear, and intricately shaped by researchers’ everyday lives and commitments. The paper also offers insight into the potentials and pitfalls of intentionally ‘slow’ scholarship that aims to disrupt the urgent temporalities of research projects as they are often imagined.

DEVELOPING THE UMKM COMPETENCE AS AN EFFORT TO EMPOWER UMKM GARMENT POLUKIDS

Empowering UMKM (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) is a crucial endeavor to support local economic growth and industrial development. Binus University has successfully implemented an empowerment program for the UMKM garment brand, Polu Kids, focusing on children's and teenagers' clothing. This program was conducted from May to September 2023 and involved a team of faculty members from Binus University's School of Computing & Creative Art and Business. The program comprised several stages, including the introduction to fabrics and materials, understanding industry trends, sewing training, creating simple children's fashion designs, and collaborative children's clothing design between the faculty team and Polu Kids. Through observations and interviews with the owner of Polu Kids, Ms. Okta, and her team, positive outcomes were identified. The results of this program include an improvement in knowledge about textiles and the garment industry, a better understanding of trends, enhanced sewing skills, improved abilities in designing children's clothing, and the creation of innovative design products. This empowerment program has created opportunities for Polu Kids to enhance the quality of their products and compete in an increasingly competitive market. In conclusion, this empowerment program provides significant benefits to the UMKM garment Polu Kids and supports the overall growth of the children's and teenagers' garment industry. This program also underscores the importance of collaboration between higher education institutions and the business sector in enhancing the capabilities of local UMKMs.

Contribution of Social Capital in Strengthening Community-Based Education (CBE) in Madrasah

This paper aims to describe and analyze the madrasahs’ activities in encouraging community-based education (CBE) reinforcement. The setting of this research was Madrasah Aliyah (MA) Nurul Mujtahidin Mlarak Ponorogo. This research employed a qualitative approach using a case study. Researchers used interviews, observation, and documentation to collect the data. The research data were validated through the triangulation technique. Moreover, the data were analyzed using the data analysis techniques of the Miles, Huberman, and Saldana models, including data condensation, data presentation, and conclusion drawing. This research shows some activities to realize community-based education (CBE) in Madrasah Aliyah Nurul Mujtahidin Mlarak Ponorogo. They help the students find foster parents or sponsors and equip them with skills needed to plunge into community life, such as embroidery and sewing skills, screen printing, motorcycle workshops, computer services, blacksmith and steel processing.

EVALUASI PROGRAM PEMBERDAYAAN PEREMPUAN MELALUI PELATIHAN MENJAHIT DI SANGGAR KEGIATAN BELAJAR (SKB) KOTA SERANG

Evaluation is conducted to determine the effectiveness of the program and provide recommendations for future program improvements. The method used in this research is descriptive method with a qualitative approach. Data was collected through interviews, observation, and documentation. The results showed that the sewing training program at the Serang City SKB had a positive impact on the participants, especially in improving sewing skills and economic empowerment. However, there are several obstacles in the implementation of the program, such as the lack of support from the government and the lack of adequate facilities. Therefore, it is suggested that the sewing training program at SKB Serang City continue to be improved by improving facilities and increasing support from the government. In addition, periodic evaluations need to be carried out to ensure the program is running well and providing optimal benefits for the participants.

Understanding user experience of an open design-clothing product.

Few studies related open design to the clothing sector, but none explored how users would experience it. The study reported here aimed to investigate how people with some or without prior sewing knowledge - advanced and amateur users – experience an open design-clothing product. Following four fashion design heuristics, a garment was created and distributed as DIY kits among advanced and amateur users. Data were collected in two stages: assembly and personalization. The results indicate that although skills play a significant role during assembly, other factors, like cross-generational differences and personal taste, influence how users experience an open design product. Furthermore, the study shows that given the necessary support, the open design can be used by a heterogeneous public, amplifying the participation of users with little or without prior sewing skills in clothing co-creation.

The Joints of Economic Strength According To Ibn Khaldun

Man must work to make the necessities of life. The more actively people try to use knowledge and skills, it will make it easier for themselves to life. The Covid-19 pandemic is very influential for the economy of the community. Many people experience a decrease in income and even job loss, so having extensive knowledge and qualified skills is very important to be able to survive in difficult situations. Ibnu Khaldun in the book of Muqaddimah, describes the various skills that become the joints of economic strength, namely agricultural skills, architectural skills, carpentry skills, spining and sewing skills, obstetrics skills, and medical expertise. People who have special skills and are able to take advantage of opportunities according to current conditions will be easier to get income in meeting their needs.

Pelatihan Keterampilan Menjahit Dengan Mesin di Pondok Pesantren Putri Islahiyyatul Asroriyah Desa Ringinagung Keling Kepung Kediri

One of the most important non-formal Education programs is training. Because, training has a complex strategic value usually applied to groups. To deceive the lack of ability and overcome unemployment. Pondok Pesantren Putri Islahiyyatul Assroriyyah, many students will eventually return to their respective areas, even though they are given lessons in the cottage about religious knowledge. However, when they have other skills in fields other than science, it will definitely make it easier for them to work in society later. This study aims to describe the implementation of the sewing skills of the students at the Pondok Pesantren Putri Islahiyyatul Assroriyyah and to describe the Sewing Training in improving the entrepreneurial readiness of the students

Kidspreneur initiation through making prayer mats with quilting techniques at Aisyiyah Orphanage Karanganyar

Mentally and financially independence are essential matters that should be learned early. Among them are for children who do not have guardians or parents. Solutions designed to encourage independence, by teaching additional skills and instilling an entrepreneurial mentality in children or Kidspreneurs. The team chose to train sewing skills using the quilting technique because it is basic and easy, and the raw materials are inexpensive and readily available. The program focused on making prayer mats considering the simple shape and the uneven age and sewing skills of the children. In addition to providing entrepreneurial mental strengthening and sewing training on quilting techniques, the team also provided assistance with sewing machines, patchwork and sewing tools. The results of the training show the enthusiasm of the children and their desire to become entrepreneurs. From this training, the children of Aisyiyah Karanganyar orphanage members will be able to be independent and even contribute to similar empowerment in their surroundings.

Pelatihan Produksi dan Branding Penjualan Masker Kain di Pesantren Modern Daarul Uluum I Kota Bogor

This community service activity aims to improve sewing skills through training in the production and branding of entrepreneurship-based cloth mask sales for santri and female students at Daarul Uluum I Islamic Boarding School, Bogor City. The methods used to implement this service activity included presentations, practicums, and discussions. The participants of this training were 36 students of the Daarul Uluum I Islamic Boarding School in Bogor City. The result showed that the santri and female students in the Daarul Uluum Modern Islamic Boarding School in Bogor could increase their productivity by using sewing skills to make cloth masks. It can protect themselves from Covid-19 by wearing cloth masks and can increase their income by selling masks producing by themselves either through direct sales or indirect sales.

The Role of Women in Supporting the Economic Condition of the Poor: An Analysis of Gender Issues on Farming Families

Basically everyone agrees that women and men are different. Women and men in the household are generally subject to the division of labor. This division of labor led to the development of limited social roles for both sexes and the creation of power differences in some respects that were more favorable to men. This role is seen in poor families in Padang Bolak Tenggara District. Thus, research was carried out to find out more about the role of women in supporting the economy of poor households in farming families in the District of Padang Bolak Tenggara, the profile of women (farmer's wives) who worked, the time spent required by farmers' wives, and what gender issues arose due to the involvement of the farmer's wife in supporting the family's economy. This paper is a gender perspective. The essence of gender perspective research is a study that clearly seeks to express women's experiences and gender relations according to a central issue that needs attention. Data collection methods using observation and interviews. In conducting data processing and analysis, researchers use Harvard analysis techniques. This technique is often referred to as Gender Framework Analysis (GFA), which is an analysis used to look at the gender profile of a social group and the role of gender in development. Based on observations in the District of Padang Bolak Tenggara of the farming family, it is known that the farmer's wife is very involved in helping the family economy. The profile of women (farmers' wives) in the District of Padang Bolak Tenggara can be seen from the average age of 40-50 years, 65% have a junior high school education background, only 3 people who have makeup/salon and sewing skills, besides farming. The intensity of time spent by women (farmer's wives) working outside is quite high at around 8-10 hours per day. This still does not include homework, i.e. doing homework and caring for children. This makes the workload and working time span of farmer's wives much longer than men. Thus, the gender issue that arises is injustice in the division of labor.

Prototype development: the Speak-Easy© mask

ABSTRACT Speak-Easy© prototype masks came from efforts to assist in the communication process for individuals with hearing limitations or individuals whose jobs that require seeing lip movement. Masks can muffle speech and make communication more difficult. The Functional, Expressive, and Aesthetic (FEA) Consumer Needs model provided the conceptual framework for the study. This project provided hands-on experience for student and faculty collaborative to address consumers’ needs. For the project, two Speak-Easy© prototype mask variations were designed and constructed. The Speak-Easy© I design goal was to provide ease of seeing lip movement and a basic pattern for individuals with sewing skills. The Speak-Easy© I mask performed within end-user expectations and needs and outperformed many non-medical fabric masks tested for FE and dP. The Speak-Easy© II prototype mask was designed to stand away from the wearer’s face, to be comfortable throughout the workday, and provide a fog-free transparent window for ease of lip-reading.

«Non eravamo mica in un romanzo»: Women’s Stories as Inspiration and Education

This article looks at the role(s) of girls and women as depicted in some early twentieth-century popular texts and in one more recent text set during those years: Bianca Pitzorno’s Il sogno della macchina da cucire (2018). Pitzorno’s coming-of-age novel explores the power of education, literature and work for an orphan girl, a sartina whose sewing skills allow her a degree of independence, and whose determination to learn, particularly through reading and conversations with other women, allows her to protect herself in a society in which women of her class and background are highly vulnerable. The novel’s engagement with turn-of-the-century popular culture both celebrates and critiques its importance in the lives of women, as the dramatic and melodramatic stories recounted in genre fiction, novels and opera offer the protagonist an escape but also an education. Through the tales – often tragic and cautionary – of Madama Butterfly, Jane Eyre and, above all, Carolina Invernizio’s Giselda (Storia di una sartina, 1892), Pitzorno helps a contemporary audience comprehend the strictures faced by women in earlier times, while also furnishing her young sartina with much greater agency than those antecedents. In reading about this girl’s reading, and about the lives of her friends and employers, we gain new insights into women’s work and leisure in early twentieth-century Italy, and see social expectations and class dynamics brought to life. We also encounter sobering parallels with ongoing issues in today’s society.

Villaste rõivaste õmblusvõtted keskaegsete arheoloogiliste leidude näitel / Stitches and seams of woollen garments based on medieval archaeological findings

Sewing by hand is certainly something that deserves researching, conserving and practising. This traditional craft might be used to make copies of items in museums or it might be used to produce modern clothing. One source of inspiration are the seams we find on archaic textile fragments. This article deals with sewing skills and techniques that are detectable on textiles recovered from urban waste from Estonian towns dating back to the 13th–16th centuries. Our article focuses on textile fragments from Tallinn chiefly, but we also look at a small assortment of finds from Tartu and Pärnu. Our main concern is with the sewing skills and the techniques used to make woollen clothes.
 Medieval sewing skills and techniques cannot really be described using contemporary terminology or manuals: any finds are only fragmentary, and establishing a link with an object is complicated because old techniques differ considerably from contemporary practice. Fragments do have their advantages, however. For example, seams can be studied more easily. The lack of adequate terminology in our contemporary language arises from the fact that many medieval techniques have been forgotten.
 The main research methods we used were visual observation with the help of magnifying tools and detailed documentation. Stitches and seams leave traces, which means we are able identify them. A thread that has rotted away leaves a row of holes behind it, and the existence of seams is revealed by imprints and by an unworn surface. Furthermore, different stitches shape the joints in a different way.
 The article is based on 174 woollen textile fragments with a total of 321 seams. Eight different types of stitches were identified on those fragments: running stitch, partial and full backstitch, hemming and overcast stitch, and buttonhole stitch. Running stitch occurs the most often, in fully one third of the cases.
 Seams can be divided into construction seams, hems and finishes, and seams for special details. Plain seam, seam with folded seam allowances, reinforced seam, lapped seam, whip stitch joins, buttonholes and buttons are studied here. English captions are provided for the illustrations of the article.
 Most of the textile fragments originate from recycling, in the course of which the seams were cut out and thrown away. Sewing waste provides information about consumption habits, and sometimes objects can be identified. Certain seams relate to certain items, e.g. the lapped seam discovered in 14 cases definitely relates to the remnants of stockings.
 The standardisation of techniques was noticeable. The length of seams and the width of seam allowances seems to be similar throughout the period under study: the running stitch is approximately 2–3 mm, the partial backstitch up to 7mm, and other stitches (zigzag) 2–3 mm long. The techniques identified with the help of medieval finds from Estonian cities are similar to those found in other European cities. We cannot tell from the fragments whether they have been made at home or by professional tailors.
 Sewing by hand should be promoted and used in the production not only of copies of artefacts, but also of contemporary items too. This would encourage us to value handicraft and good materials and to make items that have an emotional value.
 Keywords: stitches, seams, archaeology, medieval, textiles, sewing

Improving efficiency in training on sewing ao dai with supporting tools including new assembling process and instructional videos

In reality, practice teaching shows that the number of students completing the Ao Dai products does not meet the requirements on time and quality with a high rate up to 60%. One of the main reasons is that the currently sewing process still has many limitations, especially in large groups, most students do not observe clearly and carefully the instructor's sample manipulation. This article presents research results on building supporting tools including a new sewing process and instructional videos to improve Ao Dai sewing efficiency. Experimental teaching results showed that the percentage of students who completed products on time and requirements in terms of quality increased by more than 40%. Most students satisfied with the quality of the supporting tools which help to not only improve their knowledge but also practice sewing skills.

PENDAMPINGAN MANAJEMEN DAN PENGUATAN USAHA PADA TKM GANGSAR DESA KUMENDUNG KECAMATAN REMBANG KABUPATEN REMBANG

Kumendung Village is one of the governance areas of the Rembang District, Rembang Regency. There is a lot of potential that can be explored in Kumendung Village, one of which is the Gangsar Independent Workforce (TKM) group. TKM Gangsar group is a group for novice tailors totaling 20 people. In its development, there were several problems with the Gangsar TKM Group. The problems in TKM Gangsar are the limited sewing skills of group members, lack of entrepreneurial motivation, lack of market access, and minimal business management. Programs implemented by the Service Team are sewing training (masks), entrepreneurial motivation training, training and assistance in developing market access as well as business management training and assistance. The outputs of this service are the improvement of sewing skills, the development of market access, the existence of a business label, and a national seminar. Keywords: Dedication, Empowerment, Sewing Training, Business Management.

PEMBERDAYAAN PENJAHIT MASKER KAIN ANTI COVID-19 DI KABUPATEN MOJOKERTO

Covid 19 pandemic has an impact on Indonesian economy, corona impact is also experienced by people who work as shoes and sandal tailors around Mojokerto city. Their income has decreased because there are no buyers to buy their products. The purpose of this community service activity is to sharing knowledge to the community to be able to make 2 –layers fabric masks, drive the community's economy and support the demand of mask commodities in the prevention of Covid-19. The method is to provide education and training in sewing 2-layer fabric masks. Their sewing skills that they have before make education and training process getting easy, they are previously sewed shoes and sandals now turn to sew cloth masks, cloth masks made from cotton fabrics consists of 2 layers. The supply of medical masks is quite rare and is intended for medical personnel so 2-layers fabric masks are considered capable of suppressing the spread of corona virus. From the results of education and training in sewing and producing masks, data and information were obtained that the people of Mojokerto were able to produce 2-layer fabric masks and run of their economy so that they did not experience significant losses.

Mask-Making to the Rescue: Key Skills During the COVID-19 Pandemic

In the more than 12 months since the detection of novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease known as COVID-19, science has moved rapidly to increase understanding of the disease, which is now a pandemic with public health preventive measures to curb the spread of infection. Consensus on the effectiveness of simple, cloth face coverings, designed to reduce the spray of respiratory droplets that can transmit the virus, took longer to form than consensus on techniques such as handwashing or covering, which are effective for almost all viruses. This paper does not outline the public health purpose of wearing masks to reduce the spread of infection;instead it is focuses on the teaching opportunity within family and consumer sciences (FCS)--mask-making projects. The knowledge is going beyond basic sewing skills, which are being re-established and valued all across the country, to include materials selection, design challenges, and patternmaking techniques to successfully produce effective masks. These textile and apparel competencies are allowing FCS professionals to move to center stage in their role as science educators during this new challenge.

The Learning Effects of Sewing Skills in SASHIKO Stitching Training:

The Learning Effects of Sewing Skills in SASHIKO Stitching Training:

Web-based learning media the skills of suturing rupture perineum of midwifery students

ObjectiveThis research aims to determine the influence of Web-based learning media on improving perineum rupture stitching skills for D-III Midwifery students. MethodThis study uses a Research and Development (R&D) research design with the Borg & Gall development model to test the use of this product. The Quasi-Experimental research with a non-equivalent control group design was conducted in January–February 2020 at AKBID Pelamonia Makassar. The sample in this study was the second semester of the Midwifery Academy Pelamonia VII Wirabuana Makassar, totaling 64 people who were divided into two groups of intervention and control. The intervention group I (WEB media giving) amounted to 32 people and control 32 people. The sampling technique used is purposive sampling. At the end of the meeting, a post-test was conducted. The statistical test used was the paired sample t-test and Wilcoxon test. ResultsThe percentage of application assessment using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) questionnaire to assess the application's usability level is a very good category and can be interpreted that students accept WEB-based learning media. Statistical tests showed differences in the results of measurement I and measurement II in the removal of grade II perineum rupture in the control group (p<0.05) and contributed 15.6%. In the intervention group I (WEB-based learning media), there were differences in skills before and after media giving (p<0.05) and contributed 89.8% in improving the skills of the second semester Midwifery DIII students regarding the sewing of second-degree perineum rupture. ConclusionThe use of Web-Based Learning Media facilitates and enhances students in performing second-degree perineum rupture sewing skills.

Alayna Aiken: Bringing Fashion Education and Sewing Skills to Delaware ... and Kenya

Alayna Aiken: Bringing Fashion Education and Sewing Skills to Delaware ... and Kenya