For as long as I can remember, I've been sewing buttons back onto shirts for my dad and three brothers. It used to be easy when we lived in the same house. But as us kids have grown up and moved away, ...

Long before basic sewing needle options evolved as “sharps” or “betweens,” cave-era folks simply threaded bone shard and animal horn with sinew or plant fiber to stitch animal skins into outerwear.

In the group photo from left to right: Nelie Baird, Jolene van Rooyen, Tamare Dzvarai, Petro Mollers and Magda McGeer. Photo: Supplied VANDERBIJLPARK. – The course consisted of basic sewing by hand ...