Sewing their way into a career

Trainer Syuhada Johan checking a garment on a dummy.

KUCHING: A group of women can be seen sitting around a table as they meticulously draw and colour fashion sketches in a ground-floor shoplot in Beladin, a small coastal town in Betong,

Behind them, sewing machines are lined up along both walls, which are decorated with cut-out butterflies. Tailors’ dummies draped with garments stand in a corner.