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Sewing machine day

Long ago, when mankind started working with fibers to produce clothes, things were long and arduous. The fiber had to be laboriously broken down and spun into yarn and yarn, then into yarn woven into fabric. This fabric would then be cut…

Dust off the sewing machine

TECHNOLOGY has relieved people of many chores: scrubbing shirts on a washboard, making butter in a butter churn, sewing clothes by hand. But one Saturday morning in May, seven students gathered around a workbench at 3rd Ward, a craft…

Modified by a sewing machine

SOMETIMES when I sew on my new sewing machine, it looks beautiful and I think, Oh my God, look at all those perfect straight stitches. I'm like a seamstress in a fairy tale who can make anything - clothes for the king, a coat that kills…