Sew A Charm – A “Thrift Style” Exhibit Program

Join us at the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum on

Sunday- September 8th
Between 1-4pm

for a Make-it-take-it Drop-in Program!

Learn how to hand sew a stuffed charm with the Historical Museum building printed on the front, and a thrifted fabric of your choice on the back!

Free Admission
Open to the public

Program provided in collaboration with Nina Winter of TISSU Sewing Studio as part of the traveling exhibit Thrift Style:

Thrift Style explores the reuse of feed sacks to make clothing and other household objects and illuminates how the “upcycling” of these bags mutually benefitted twentieth-century consumers and businesses. With forty-one works from patterns to garments, it serves as an example of past ingenuity that can inform today’s efforts towards sustainability.

The exhibition, organized by the Historic Costume and Textile Museum and the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, both at Kansas State University, provides a nostalgic view into American ingenuity, sensibility, and optimism during a particularly challenging time of economic hardship and war—the period of the Great Depression and World War II. The reuse of feed, flour, and sugar sacks was a cost-saving and resource-saving approach employed by homemakers to make new items to meet their families’ needs.

This exhibition is toured by ExhibitsUSA, a national program of Mid-America Arts Alliance.

Thank you to our corporate sponsor of Thrift Style:
Goodwill Industries of Kansas

And a special thank you to our individual sponsors:
Steven Overstreet
Alice Smith
The Family of Kenneth E. Gerhardt

Interested in sponsoring an upcoming exhibit or event or becoming a Business Member? Contact us at wschm@wichitahistory.org or call (316) 265-9314.