Sewing Workshop – A “Thrift Style” Exhibit Program

Join us at the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum on
Saturday- September 14th
for a FREE 2-Hour Make-it-Take-it Hand Sewing Workshop!

Make your own bag with thrifted and recycled fabric. Personalize it even more with added optional embroidery!

Reservations are requested but not required. Email edu@wichitahistory.org or call 316-265-9314.

The lesson starts promptly at 2pm.
Free Admission
Open to the public.

Instruction provided by 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.