Our Story

How Sister & Sewn began.

Two sisters, a grandmother’s legacy, and a season of grief that led us back to making with our hands.

How it began

A season of grief, and two new sewing machines.

Sister & Sewn began in 2024, in the season after we lost our grandmother. She had built a beautiful home and a restaurant business with almost nothing, and she believed that the spaces we make for people matter.

Cassidy signed up for a sewing class at Urban Spools in Dallas. Too impatient to wait, she bought a machine and taught herself after the kids were asleep. She called her sister Tara in Washington, D.C., and Tara bought a machine that same week. We learned together across a thousand miles, trading photos, mistakes, ideas and small victories over text.

Out of grief, two new machines and a shared instinct to make something lasting, Sister & Sewn was born.

What we saw

Exceptional work, kept close to its story.

As our practice grew, so did our curiosity. We kept finding exceptional textiles, inherited materials and independent artists’ work that had become separated from the people and stories that gave them meaning. Makers with extraordinary work, and a design community eager to discover it, were not always finding one another.

Sister & Sewn became our way to close that gap: to champion artists, keep the story close to the work, and give both new collections and storied materials a considered path forward.

Two sisters, two cities

Different paths. Deeply shared values.

We live in different cities and work closely, sharing ideas, decisions and a belief that the best things are made thoughtfully.

Cassidy Liland · Fort Worth, Texas

Cassidy Liland · Fort Worth, Texas

Maker, mother, clinical psychologist.

Cassidy’s work as a clinical psychologist centers on grief, loss, presence and what helps people feel grounded. That background runs through everything we do: calm over chaos, meaning over trends, and beauty meant to be lived with every day.

Tara Blythe · Washington, D.C.

Tara Blythe · Washington, D.C.

Builder, sister, strategist.

Tara’s background in biomedical sales, strategy and relationship-building brings a thoughtful operational lens to the business. Together, we balance creativity and structure, intuition and execution.

“A room can make someone feel at home before a single word is spoken.”

Our grandmother’s belief is still the measure for everything we take on.

Where we are now

A home for makers, materials and the design trade.

What began at a sewing table has grown into a house that brings exceptional artists, storied materials and thoughtful U.S. production to the American design trade, with the story always kept close to the work.

Sister & Sewn at The Collective, D&D Building, New York

Our New York home

Visit us at the D&D Building.

Sister & Sewn has a permanent home at The Collective on the 4th floor of the Decoration & Design Building, where the collection is always on view for designers, showrooms, editors and collectors.

The Collective, Suite 409
979 Third Avenue
New York, New York

Work with us

We would love to hear from you.

For collaborations, trade accounts, press and partnerships.

hello@sisterandsewn.com