Monday, May 30, 2022

Handout for Jamestown Historical Clothing Conference

 I'm looking forward to the upcoming conference at Jamestown next weekend.  The rising Covid numbers make it a bit scary, but I'm still planning to go masked.  

For the Making Buttons workshop I'll be teaching, we'll be making two different button types: Evenweave and Buttonhole.  You can download the class handout for reference.

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