Colonial outfits are coming together for many Dighton residents. Saturday marked the fourth Colonial Clothing Sewing Bee, and more than 20 residents showed up to work on men’s cheater pants and to ...

Steve Salisbury, of Pascoag, R.I., is a modern-day sutler, which was a term for a merchant who provided useful goods to American soldiers who were on the battlefield during the Revolutionary War.

There's a persistent rhythm to the sewing machines at the Colonial Mills factory in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Needles puncture through cords of cotton and linen, binding yards of fabric into soft ...

Three exhibitions opening in the next few days are meant to dispel common myths about Colonial women’s sewing habits. Young embroiderers, it turns out, did not learn much at their mothers’ knees by ...