Sewing out: memories and writings about sewing, seamstresses and their ways of teaching-learning sewing
sewing; traditional crafts; black women; teaching-learning; memory; narratives.
This research intends to reflect on the narratives about the traditional craft of seamstresses and their ways of learning and teaching sewing. Pulling the thread of memory and
with the hands that create ways of covering and displaying the bodies with garments, I have been gathering conversations, stories, and counter-hegemonic narratives that point to the knowledge, the crafts, and the black ways of sewing clothes, stories, and lives. Who weaves the network, almost always a women’s network, around the construction of a garment? Among impoverished peripheral black women and seamstresses who have supported, and still support generations through the textile craft of sewing, how was the sharing of this learning?
The pedagogy of sewing. What spaces were forged for these women to create among themselves survival pacts, places of life - through the trades that involved the care of the clothes, sheets, household, linens, household cloths, trousseaus?
We have initially traveled a path that has revealed how bodies have narratives and
trajectories marked by erasure and invisibility in Brazilian historiography