Handmade Wedding Dress and Gowns

No one knows when the first handmade wedding dress was created. It is known that sewing began as far back as 20,000 years ago. Anyone who wanted to make a wedding dress at that time needed to use needles cared out of bones, and thread spun from the sinews of an animal carcass.

Anyone who wanted to make a handmade wedding dress by using one of the first sewing machines had to be content with seams sealed by chain stitches. Such machine proved to be rather impractical. The chain stitch pulled apart very easily.

Later women who wanted to create a wedding dress that is handmade were able to use a machine that made a lockstitch. The introduction of the lockstitch meant that every seamstress used two threads to create the firm bond in her seam. While the lockstitch was more firm than the chain stitch, the creation of that stitch still required a good deal of effort.

Before the 1920s, every sewing machine relied on the machine operator to supply the energy for driving the machine. A woman who wanted to make a handmade wedding dress would have to spend long hours at a machine with a foot-operated treadle. After all the footwork, it is amazing that any young bride had enough energy left to walk down the aisle.

Then in the 1920s, Singer introduced a sewing machine with an electric motor. Today, a woman who wants to have a handmade wedding dress can choose between two different options. If she wants, she can use USB Device Server. Shortly after this, less than 30 years later, the 1950’s wedding dresses were born which incorporated beautiful materials such as silk organza.

That Device Server lets a seamstress wirelessly transfer information from a pattern from her PC onto her sewing machine. Before the introduction of the Server in 2005, a seamstress had to download a pattern from her PC and then upload that software information onto her sewing machine.

Today, a woman who wants to have a handmade wedding dress does not even need to own a sewing machine. There are plenty of places online that offer custom and designer handmade wedding dresses and gowns.

Of course, a future bride can not know by looking at modeled gowns how she herself will look in any particular type of wedding gown. That is the disadvantage of this alternative method for securing a dress of this type for the wedding.

Jen Carter is owner of My Wedding Blog, a free wedding planning guide about weddings.