sewster

noun

1. (archaic, dialectal)A seamstress; a sewer (someone who sews).

   “At every twisted thrid my rock let fly Unto the sewster”

   “This Letter mentions that portraits of Cromwell, Lockhart, and Mr. Sewster, were then in the possession of Mr. Gosling, of Wistow, near Ramsey, in Huntingdonshire, whose Grandfather married a Sewster.”

   “[…] and not of men only but of women and the same not only learned but labouring men, sewsters, servants, and handmaids.”

   “Bound with strong cord! A sewster's thread, i'faith, had been enough [...]”