Sewing is the craft of fastening or attaching objects using stitches made with a needle and thread. Sewing is one of the oldest of the textile arts, arising in the Palaeolithic era.

For thousands of years, all sewing was done by hand. The invention of the sewing machine in the 19th century and the rise of computerisation in the 20th century led to mass production and export of sewn objects, but hand sewing is still practised around the world.