Our much-loved Brigitte Top pattern is now available in the extended size range of 6–22. One of our most popular patterns since 2014 (here’s our original post), the Brigitte Top is a timeless wardrobe staple that offers style, ease and…
We were recently entrusted with a large donation of vintage sewing patterns from Suzy Cato-Gashler, a long-time customer who, due to illness, is no longer able to sew. Suzy has been part of our Tessuti Melbourne community for years and…
Meet our latest pattern – the Lisbon Jacket. Lisbon has been designed as our dream transitional piece and if we had to choose one word to describe it, ‘relaxed’ would be it. Unlined and knee-length, Lisbon has a loose silhouette…
Like everything else on Instagram, our Tessuti content, community and your Tessuti makes are becoming increasingly and frustratingly difficult to find. Searching for your social media shares under our current hashtag methods is simply not working anymore and many of…
Time flies. We can hardly believe that it’s been over 10 years since we released our Lisa Dress Pattern. But here we are, and just like your favourite song, it’s still as good as the day it was first released!…
2025 is starting off strong with the arrival of our third and latest pattern – the Alessi Bias Dress! We’ve been sampling this style over a few years now, first sharing the version below to highlight some (then) new linen…
Second month of the year and now, our second new pattern of the year – look at us go! Like our previous Aida Dress release, this one was a bit of a stop start stop re-draft stop start sort of…
Meet our first new pattern of 2025 – the Aida Dress. An absolute labour of love, this pattern has been almost two years in the making with numerous tweaking, much drafting and many, many samples sewn. The end design is…
We’ve paired one of our most popular dress patterns with our popular Caged Seersucker 100% cotton Japanese seersucker and it’s a match made in HEAVEN! Here Virginia models our Eva Dress in Caged Grey (above) and Caged Black (below). We’ve…
This make is inspired by a few things, but foremost an occasion. The provided dress code was ‘Formal’ so I settled on making something that worked not just as a “dressy” dress but a piece that could be equally good…
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