What is Piping?

Series Summary

Sewing is an ancient craft that still has remarkable relevance in today's modern world. The art of stitching and assembling pieces of fabric together either by hand or with the use of a modern sewing machine is still a valuable skill and can be used for industry, home, or artistic purposes. Industrial sewing is usually done with the use of machines, but for seamstresses, alteration givers, and most casual sewers, an old fashioned needle and thread is still incredibly useful and more often than not the desired method since it enables far more detail. Tailoring and dressmaking require not only a needle and thread, but also other tools and materials that you can find easily at arts and crafts stores.

In this free video series our expert seamstress will teach you how to sew piping. You will learn about the supplies you need to make piping and learn how to make and cut the fabric strips for piping. You will also get step by step instructions for sewing the piping, and then learn how to attach piping to different shapes of fabric. Whether you are attaching piping to a round pillow, a straight collar or an angled piece of fabric like a curtain, our expert will show you everything you need to know for start to finish piping projects.

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Lenee Alexander, with leneealexanderdesigns.com. And, I'm here with expertvillage.com today, and I want to teach you how to make your own handmade piping. And piping is basically a cord that has been wrapped in fabric, and it looks like this when it's applied. And there's a lot of different things that piping is on--anything from apparel, like dresses. Maybe at the bottom hem of a dress, or cap sleeves; or a lot of pillows, a lot of furniture, home decor have it. Maybe some curtains. And there's just a lot of different things that you can do with it. And so today I want to teach you how to cut the fabric, sew it together in one long strip, and how to wrap it around a piece of cord to make your own piping. So, get your stuff together, and we're going to go over the supplies list next, and we'll figure out how we're going to go about making this piping."