Sewing used to be an important job for every woman. The 18th-century woman had to spin and weave to make cloth, then cut and stitch the cloth into clothing, bed linens, towels and even rugs.

Naseem in Bingley earns her living as an artist but pencil and paint are not her media. Instead Naseem does her drawings with needle and thread on her sewing machine. I went along to her studio to ...