Teaching art one dress at a time

Local seamstress brings a little Hollywood to the Northwoods

In a clean, well-lit basement outside of Sugar Camp, Lynne Williams sews miniature Batman costumes and dreams of changing the way people think about clothes. This is not your average seamstress’ tale. An L.A.-trained patternmaker, designer and tailor, Williams also teaches self-paced sewing in Nicolet College’s community education program. She and her husband, Chuck, have managed to carve out a living by straddling the line between commercial and fine art and enjoying every minute of it. Lynne Williams first learned to sew at the age of three. By five she was sitting on phone books and working a treadle machine. After a love affair with theater through high school, Williams recognized her gift as a seamstress and costume designer. She trained at the Fashion Institute in Design and

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• By By Giles Morris<br />Daily News Staff-
• May 16, 2011