We are recording today on the traditional ancestral and unseeded territories of the Coast

Salish and Kwokiwak peoples, including Slalututututututututut, Squamish, Musquium, and Comox First Nations.

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buds who love to sew and it's basically all we want to talk about. Today we're

interviewing Bernadette Banner historical sewist extraordinaire.

She answers all of our hand sewing questions, chats with us about historical clothing, and gives

us a behind-the-scenes look at her YouTube channel.

If you love to sell, this is your show.

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Hello Bernadette, thank you so much for coming on the show today.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm very excited to chat with you.

Oh, we are thrilled to chat with you too. Can you please introduce yourself to our listeners?

Hi listeners. I'm Bernadette Banner. I have a YouTube channel on YouTube.

Oh God, we are starting off on a great foot.

Well, I started off as a dress historian.

I was training in dress history.

Well, actually, how far back are we going,

but I started out in costume design for theater back in New York on

Broadway and then from there sort of went into dress history and decided to start posting my personal

projects on YouTube and that sort of ended up becoming a job.

So I never really know like what is the official title to like introduce myself as?

Youtuber if we want to be very base. sewing youtuber I focus primarily on the history so I you know modern sewing is not quite my area of expertise but the history of sewing hand sewing it to me. I'm all about that. Well that's

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