Category: sewing machines
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Ecole Holt Couture – Can we help you?
Do any of these predicaments resonate with you? Being an ardent admirer of authentic haute couture and while you attend vintage haute couture exhibits, the displays make your mouth water and your heart leap to just witness the artform with its high level of craftsmanship, ‘they look so perfect, no one can do that anymore!’…
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A typical day at Ecole Holt Couture…
After asking our students about topics for this blog, they immediately replied ‘what about what we do in class all day long!’ Other than our particular projects (which are pretty exciting in themselves) this is what happens. At the moment we have 3 separate classes running at different levels, but at some point during the…
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Something old, something new ….
People ask us all the time about the sewing machines we use at the school, expecting some brand new whiz-bang computerized machines that will do everything imaginable – perhaps even by themselves! They are terribly disappointed when we tell them they are mere humble 1950’s vintage all metal industrial strength Singer 306k models. Industrial strength…
Ecole Holt Couture - School of Couture Sewing & Design 