Humans have been making and wearing clothes since our species first felt cold, though these early fashions rarely find their way into archaeological collections. The tools used to make clothing are much more likely to survive in the archaeological record and offer a glimpse into the hidepreparation sequence. This research project seeks to explore the interspatial variability in sewing implements and discard patterns from Ancestral Wichita archaeological sites (~1400-1700 CE), to better understand the intensification of hide-processing during this period. According to ethnographic sources, the hide-preparation sequence for Indigenous groups on the Plains was left up to the purview of women; yet when bison-oriented trade came to dominate the Plains during the pericolonial period, a craftswoman's role in exchanging her own craft may have drastically changed. With this shift, women may have lost some of the control over their labor that they once had, their labor may have been co-opted by male relatives and partners for their own competitive exchange.