Couture Sewing Skills – an introduction
The French term ‘Haute Couture’ translates as ‘high dressmaking’. It refers to the making of custom clothing. Made to the highest standard using traditional hand-construction techniques with painstaking design detailing. Our Couture Sewing Skills workshop will help you ‘sew couture’.
Couture Sewing Skills – an introduction
- couture fabrics
- how to hand and machine stitch the finest silks to the heaviest wools with confidence
- couture seams on delicate fabrics
- hand stitches for a couture finish
- couture fastenings
- the couture supporting layers including the use of silk organza
- invisible hems
- weighted and double stitched hems
- Hong Kong binding
Sew couture for a beautiful, professional finish!
Read Jo’s blog and discover the connection between Haute Couture and our home county of Lincolnshire.

- Cost:
- Date: to be confirmed. Please contact us for more information or to book as a Sew Personal session
- Times:
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To book your specialist course you can:
- Call Jane on: 07946 648748 or 01652 662053
- Email Jane on: jane@janewhitetuition.co.uk
- For card payment by phone please call Jane on 07946 648748 or 01652 662053
We also accept payment by Paypal
Sew Short Course and conditions:
- To secure a place on the course fees are payable on booking.
- Sorry, fees are non-refundable.
- There will be an extra charge for tuition outside the course dates.
- Jane White Couture Tuition reserves the right to cancel or change the date of courses.
- Sewing machines and overlockers brought the studio must have a current PAT certificate. Use is at the discretion of the tutor.
- The course fee includes materials unless otherwise stated.
- The course information is an outline. Work completed during the session will depend on pre-existing skills and pace of work.
It was the word ‘couture’ that got me wobbling; my largely self-taught skills were rusty so I was a bit apprehensive but I needn’t have worried. I learnt loads and my designs are more wearable for the inclusion of some niffty ‘couture’ tricks.