seamster

[ seem-ster or, especially British, sem- ]

/ ˈsim stər or, especially British, ˈsɛm- /

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noun

a person whose occupation is sewing; tailor.

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Origin of seamster

before 1000; Middle English semster(e), Old English sǣmestre, sēamystre, feminine derivative of sēamere tailor; see seam, -ster

A seamster cut out for them two long black robes with hoods attached, like monks' habits.
Bouvard and Pcuchet|Gustave Flaubert
My wife is a seamster, my auntie a cook I do janitor work or comon labor.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919|Various
One sees in it a natural outcome of his prentice life in London, as a shoemaker, a seamster, or what not.
The Mermaid Series. Edited by H. Ellis. The best plays of the old dramatists. Thomas Dekker. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Ernest Rhys.|Thomas Dekker
My "seamster," Maria, has a little girl who she sent me word should be my little chambermaid, and she wished me to name her.
Letters from Port Royal|Various

Not as clerk or seamster as in former days, but as half owner and proprietor.
Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale|Ida Glenwood