seamstress

A seamstress is a woman whose job is sewing. A skilled seamstress, work as a seamstress, the village seamstress.

The trade was one of the few respectable paid occupations open to women for centuries, and it was badly paid throughout — Thomas Hood's Song of the Shirt made the point in 1843. The word is gendered, and sewer, dressmaker or tailor are used where it is not wanted. Note that a seamster is the historical masculine form and is now rare.