| 单词 | sewing machine |
| 例句 | The sewing machine hummed and the radio droned on. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Once I learned how to use a sewing machine in Ms. Deeds’s home economics class, my imagination really took off. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z As the Singer sewing machine chugged up and down creating stitches in my blue-and-white elementary school uniform, I wondered why my brothers did not wear uniforms to school. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Seeing Doreen supported in my arms and silent except for a few wet hiccups, the woman strode away down the hall to her cubicle with its ancient Singer sewing machine and white ironing board. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z A coworker betrayed Shin a few weeks after he dropped the sewing machine. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But I was only mediocre with a sewing machine; I did my best work by hand. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The sewing machine made a resounding clatter in the room; it was of a ponderous, bygone make. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Elizabeth sits at the sewing machine she has on the dining room table. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I drenched the quilt she never finished, rusted the metal parts of her sewing machine. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z So I stood there in the “sewing room” in my socks and underwear doing the on-off routine with my pants while hot Annie pinned and her hot mother worked the sewing machine. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Yep—sitting in front of a sewing machine all day. Best job in the world. That was after he got back from the war. Vietnam.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z By the end of the day, all of my clothes, my books, and my sewing machine are here at the Malloys’. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Last night, I fell asleep to the whir of her sewing machine through the yard. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She might be able to turn a thousand scraps of fabrics into a beautiful dress on her sewing machine, but she can’t figure out how to take a picture like I can. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z It didn’t seem likely that the ancient Egyptians used any of the kinds Ken and Toby knew about—crankcase, sewing machine, polyunsaturated or bicycle. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s the Swiss Army knife of sewing machines.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z In the large brick building in Tegucigalpa, young women sit in rows behind sewing machines, furiously stitching medical scrubs for export to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z During his first year in the factory, he proved it to himself and to his coworkers in a confrontation with another sewing machine repairman. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The sewing machine thumps a methodic beat, never ceasing, but only getting stronger and stronger with each stitch. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “No. I couldn’t do that. I made them. Been working on them since March ninth. My sewing machine died, so I had to stitch them by hand.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z The sewing machine tumbled down the stairwell, broken beyond repair. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I have no idea how long the knocking’s been going on when it dawns on me that the noise I’m hearing isn’t coming from my sewing machine acting up but from someone at the window. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The cars had old chairs and sewing machines and washtubs tied to their roofs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Been working so busy on that sewing machine in her bedroom. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He is sitting at his sewing machine, right shoe still on the foot treadle. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z At first, Fannie was scared when she stood onstage to speak to a crowd, but remembering the anxious faces of the hardworking girls at their sewing machines gave her strength and courage. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z So far in Mrs. Collins’s class, we’ve learned about the different components that make a sewing machine work and how to use it. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The woman who had lived there before us left behind an old- fashioned sewing machine that you operated with a foot treadle. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She straightens a long piece of satin through her sewing machine with her foot hovering over the pedal. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Later on, sewing machines were shipped in, and one barracks was turned into a clothing factory. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z On Jackie’s last day in Colby, she and Bertha sat together at the sewing machine in my room and talked about boys and clothes and movie stars while they worked on a zipper. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z When she was old enough she stopped working on the farm and got a job at a factory in a nearby town, She worked on a sewing machine making school uniforms. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Shin worked late that night in the factory and was among the last of the sewing machine repairmen to walk into a ten o’clock meeting of ideological struggle, a mandatory session of self-criticism. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Turning more pages, they came to a full-size sewing machine sitting atop a wooden cabinet with six drawers. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The Jeeps, troops, and sewing machines were now drawn up next to the Far Common quadrangle. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z If they arrived to work even a few minutes late, as punishment they were locked in the basement for an hour and not allowed to go to their sewing machines. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z She was bending over her old treadle Singer sewing machine, threading a bobbin. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I was at the sewing machine with Grandma Sweetwine, one of her very first visits. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z He’d been through the room thoroughly only hours before, but he’d forgotten the compartment at the side of the sewing machine, where all the patterns and bobbins were kept. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Since those forgotten afternoons when her niece barely had enough interest to turn the crank on the sewing machine, she had reached the conclusion that she was simpleminded. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z We kept Oz on the old sewing machine in the bedroom. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Another pawned her sewing machine and summoned an exterminator. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Shin learned how to tell from a sewing machine’s sound what was wrong with it. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z One seamstress who regularly cleaned the superintendent’s room was Park Choon Young, whom Shin knew from secondary school and who operated a sewing machine that he maintained. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Holly Paine’s new sewing machine was gleaming white and covered with buttons. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Ever so often, I come to work and find her bawling in her crib, Miss Leefolt busy on the sewing machine rolling her eyes like it’s a stray cat stuck in the screen door. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Shin had watched him go into a rage when one of the seamstresses in Gong’s stable broke the axle of a sewing machine. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Deft with a sewing machine, Katherine bought fabric from the dry goods store and stayed up nights making school outfits for the girls and dresses for herself. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The pig was not on the old sewing machine. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “The thing is, Ma needs money for a sewing machine.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z The disappearance of his grandmother’s dresses, hats, sewing machine, and gardening books didn’t bother Clayton. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z “He started out doing odd jobs, working a sewing machine, things like that,” remembers Bill Atkinson, now an accomplished climber and guide, who also worked at Alp Sports at the time. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z An old-fashioned crank telephone, a primitive-looking wooden mask and a treadle sewing machine. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Elizabeth was hunched over her sewing machine, intent on getting a new dress ready for the Christmas season, and it is yet another green gown, cheap and frail. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z There were also two wooden privacy screens to change behind, some freestanding mirrors, and a worktable laid out with sewing machines and bolts of raw fabric. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Papi nailed new boards under Mami’s treadle sewing machine, and under their bed, but the floor still groaned and sagged to the corners, threatening to collapse and bring the house down with it. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He would see her on the porch working at the sewing machine, which she had learned to operate with admirable skill, and he would not even speak to her. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He hired three more girls, and bought sewing machines for all of them. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Last week, I wore my patchwork denim skirt and vest with the red leather pockets that just about broke my sewing machine needle. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time I shut the front door, all I hear is that sewing machine going like crazy. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z She had an ancient sewing machine that they had bought upon their arrival in America. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It took a couple of trips, but she ended up bringing out the sewing machine, most of the tools from her first class, a square template, and an iron. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Faster than a sewing machine working a piece of cloth, I hooked down the tarpaulin on both sides of the boat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z My shoulders were aching from bending over the sewing machine all day, and I swung my arms back and forth to relax them. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s the sewing machine table that they store in here. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Easter wasn’t that far off, or maybe it was a gift to thank him for the sewing machine. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z If they broke a sewing machine, they were not beaten. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Many times, when Remedios the Beauty was not present, it was he who turned the wheel on the sewing machine. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z As I worked moving bolts of fabric from the back, I uncovered a dozen old sewing machines hidden by a stack of boxes. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Mama turned to me from her sewing machine. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He disappeared, along with his wife, a few months after Shin dropped the sewing machine. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Crisscrossed Packs Pedal, pedal Mother’s feet push the sewing machine. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Mama had always used a sewing machine, but it looked like Baachan sewed by hand. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z When ail the vacation Bible schools ended, I would watch Mama Lessie sew at her old sewing machine. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Grandma turned around from the sewing machine, and froze. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Her mother wore shorts and a tank top as she worked the pedal of a sewing machine with her bare foot. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z One woman, I noticed, was pressing some baby’s clothing and another seemed to be making remarkable progress with the sections of fuchsia satin which she was joining together 011 one of the large sewing machines. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dumplin’,” she calls over the sewing machine, not even acknowledging what I just said. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The little car clattered, like a giant sewing machine. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z She sank down into her chair and pressed her forehead against the cool body of the sewing machine he’d given her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He could make out the trestle of the sewing machine, and the straight-backed chair behind it. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z A few minutes after he dropped the sewing machine, Shin was called into the office of the plant superintendent, along with the chief foreman and the floor foreman who had reported the incident. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Even if you die, the sewing machine can’t be brought back,” the superintendent added. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She learned to decode paper patterns and to run a sewing machine. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Thanks. I want to start making my own costumes. My mom just got me a sewing machine so I can learn.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Fannie’s head pounded from the racket of the high-speed sewing machines. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Our Singer sewing machine worked by pushing a pedal. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Then I put a towel over Bertha’s sewing machine and hung my backpack on the hook on the closet door. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z My sewing machine was on the floor nearby, and an open box full of all my other supplies—many spools of thread, pins and a pincushion, envelopes of needles—sat beside it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z She could have helped her father buy seeds and tools for next year’s crop, a couple of new chickens, or maybe that sewing machine for her mother! Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “She just took in a heap of sewing that she has to finish quick. Marla Kay from church has a sewing machine, but she said hers is jammed up bad.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Momma sat at the sewing machine all hours, making and remaking clothes for use in California. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as if the Changs had run flat life through a fancy new sewing machine, and seen it emerge smocked. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I was an early riser but was not allowed out until the sun shot in through the crack near Mami’s sewing machine and swept a glistening stripe of gold across the dirt floor. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z She loved her fabrics, her old sewing machine, her pretty, pretty objects. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Now she had a sewing machine, a very fancy one, and bolts of fabric with which she created fine clothing. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, I sit at my sewing machine and dream about the great transformation I’m going to make someday. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The sewing machines were carried with considerable exertion into Veazy Hall. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Carrying sewing machines up and down factory stairs no longer wore him out. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z When their temperamental foot-powered sewing machines broke down, Shin fixed them. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He found work selling Singer sewing machines door-to-door. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z She continued working in the main-house kitchen, kneading dough and sewing on the sewing machine, daily growing more deformed by her maternity. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t feel like carrying any old sewing machine. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She made quilts in her craft room, and the hum of the sewing machine could be heard throughout the downstairs. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “Henry is Henry. Still waters and all that. But I’ve seen him planning. That sewing machine?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Starry squeals over a secondhand television, I get a fresh notebook, and Ma looks pleased with a new sewing machine and reams of different kinds of cloth, buttons, zippers, and other supplies. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I sleep on a narrow bed in the room where they keep the ironing board and sewing machine and mops and brooms and buckets. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a tailor who sets up his foot-pedal sewing machine under the tree and takes their orders, simple as that. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When my daddy died three years ago, Momma took to her sewing machine to help her ease the pain. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, I spend my weekends alone, holed up in a room with my Singer sewing machine. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes, despite its thimble-sized engine that sounded like a sewing machine, the Gremlin was managing to accelerate. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z You might get a disease just by standing near this one, and you surely did not want to share a sewing machine with her in home economics. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z What she lacked in smarts Hasina made up for in mischief and a mouth that, Giti said, ran like a sewing machine. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z There was even a sewing machine like Mama’s. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “I guess a Parachute Riggers’ school has to have sewing machines.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Werner repairs a neighbor’s sewing machine, the Children’s House grandfather clock. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z That was it; the lamp by her sewing machine was on, too. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “But I’m gonna need a sewing machine. I can get one secondhand down on Duval for twenty-five dollars,” she said, and looked at me. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z “This war’s so technical they’ve got to use all kinds of machines, even sewing machines, don’t you think so, Gene?” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Park paid polite attention to Shin’s instructions on sewing machine maintenance. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Well,” says Mom, squinting over her sewing machine as she runs a seam. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “I started as a thread cutter, and now I’m a sewing machine operator.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Mami’s sewing machine, the bed, her rocking chair, the small dresser where Papi kept his special things, baked in the sun, their worn surfaces scarred, their joints loose and creaky. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z OUR places of comfort are expectedly different, my friends and I. Elizabeth’s is hunched over her sewing machine trying to make her life look seamless, store-bought. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z There looked to be nothing but junk up there—old Christmas decorations, a sewing machine, and spools of dated cloth. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It wasn’t quite pitch-dark, and in the ghostly gray predawn light he could see the old treadle sewing machine. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It started with me taking my Hello Kitty sewing machine and fabric and making a naïve offer to the internet: “If you need masks and don’t have access to them, I will help you!” Kristina Wong’s Pandemic Story: Sewing With Her Aunties 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z At one point, Bert and Joshua got into a spat over whose turn it was to use a certain sewing machine, and as Joshua stormed off in anger, Bert yelled after him, “Drop dead.” On the Runway Blog: On 'Project Runway,' a Team of Rivals 2011-08-29T16:46:54Z The structure, strewn with sewing machines across the bright red floor, has suffered extensive water damage and mold. Saving the Artwork of the South: Deep Investment, and a Drone 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z On the second floor, models mixed with seamstresses lurched over their sewing machines. Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci Is the King of Fashion Week 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Dr. He designed advertisements for plays and even sewing machines, and painted and sketched portraits. Aubrey Beardsley, Racing Creatively Against the Clock 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z “I use a sewing machine the way I use a hammer,” Dazzle said. Machine Dazzle: How Many Ways Can You Say Fabulous? 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z “We wanted something roomy enough to accommodate two adults, a typewriter, wireless, gramophone and records, sewing machine, a mass of books, a cat and an extremely lively eighteen-month-old baby,” Aiken wrote. The Practical Magic of Joan Aiken, the Greatest Children’s Writer You’ve Likely Never Read 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z The Idiot was designed to resemble a Dostoevsky-era apartment: old oak furniture, Singer iron-pedaled sewing machines, clunky typewriters, shelves of antique books and the occasional, anachronistic bust of Lenin. White Nights of St. Petersburg, Russia 2011-06-03T19:03:09Z Rowan filled the room with props such as mannequins, sewing machines and a robe that guests can put on. Remember the creepy house from ‘The Silence of the Lambs’? Now it’s a vacation rental. 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z When the wedding photographer posted the serendipitous turn of events on Facebook, one of the photographer’s friends offered the tailor a five-thread table sewing machine for free. New Neighbors, New Considerations 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z The dim, narrow entrance, next to an airy bakery, is indicated only by an inconspicuous window displaying vintage Singer sewing machines and clothing draped over hangers. A guide to Sydney’s flourishing small-bar scene 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Kilims, antique sewing machines, a set of 1950s towels, and moldering linen imported from Europe and embroidered with the hotel's name, cascaded from large rattan trunks. At historic Aleppo hotel, nostalgia for a Syria lost 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z "During our 75th birthday party we're going to be stitched together with a single sewing machine," jokes Joel, conjuring an interesting possibility for a future photograph. Brothers Jerome and Joel-Peter Witkin and their 'Twin Visions' 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Either by hand, using a whipstitch every ¼ inch, or with a sewing machine, sew around the perimeter of the patch to reinforce it. Todd Snyder on How to Add Patches to Your Jeans 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z You’ll find fabrics, yarn, thread, patterns, notions and sewing machines arranged in a fresh modern setting. Destination Design: Leesburg Sometimes we would go to the workroom, down the hall in 618, which was filled with dress forms, a sewing machine and a cutting table placed over a bed. Charles James and Me 2014-04-23T23:10:18Z Paris Singer — Isadora’s lover, father to her youngest child and an heir to a sewing machine fortune — spends the novel saddled between constant worry and managing the household. Review | Amelia Gray captures the mind of Isadora Duncan, the mother of modern dance 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z As a result, the first thing one sees from the glass-enclosed lobby is a light and airy work area outfitted with cutting tables, sewing machines, and other tools of the trade. Explore Ralph Rucci's Inspiring Manhattan Headquarters 2014-02-10T05:00:00Z Because they had no friends in Miami, they stayed in a lot and worked; their living room was a studio, with sewing machines, mannequins and a heat press machine. Bria Vinaite: from Instagram entrepreneur to starring opposite Willem Dafoe 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z "I didn't know much about gay people," she said, sitting shyly behind her sewing machine in an alarmingly orange room from the family's next abode. Rewind TV: Panda Makers; Operation Mincemeat; The House That Made Me; The Day John Lennon Died; The Nation's Favourite Abba Song 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z I dressed as Robin all the time as a child – my grandmother ran up my costume in the kitchen on her sewing machine – and seeing a 21st-century version was oddly emotional for me. Comic-Con 2010: My favourite bits 2010-07-26T14:23:00Z It prevented her from sitting at a sewing machine for long periods, which limited her cosplay. She Brings Comic Book Characters to Life 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Kilims, antique sewing machines, a set of 1950s towels, and moldering linen imported from Europe and embroidered with the hotel's name, cascaded from large rattan trunks. At historic Aleppo hotel, nostalgia for a Syria lost 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z At the age of 5, Cecilia began to show an interest in clothes and asked for a sewing machine for her sixth birthday. The Kiddie Couturiers 2011-02-23T21:07:10Z Next to the sewing machine in the studio were confections-in-progress like a fur collar mounted with cloth roses. Allison Janae Hamilton’s Spirit Sources 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z She uses not so much paints and brushes, but a sewing machine and crochet hook, weaving and twisting bits of fabric and yarn into magical forests, mythical creatures, fanciful garments, darkly disturbing images. Artist Mandy Greer molds the fiber of life 2011-11-30T23:49:57Z A found object, such as a sewing machine, guitar, rifle and various signs, sits atop each tree. An outsider art tour of California 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z At one point, Bert and Joshua got into a spat over whose turn it was to use a certain sewing machine, and as Joshua stormed off in anger, Bert yelled after him, “Drop Dead.” On the Runway Blog: On Project Runway, a Team of Rivals 2011-08-26T18:59:16Z In addition, Jo-Ann is offering its store classrooms, sewing machines and professional instruction for people to produce the personal protective equipment with the free supplies there. Jo-Ann craft stores are giving away free kits to make face masks, gowns 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z It didn’t help that Mom dressed us in matching polyester get-ups, straight from the McCall’s patterns she cranked out on her trusty sewing machine. Maid of dishonor 2012-07-14T00:00:00Z Two girlfriends in their 30s discuss feminist engagement — one is knitting a pink hat for the other — when an old Singer sewing machine connects them to the reality of women past. Review: ‘Good Muslim’ Highlights a Mixed Bag of One-Acts 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z “Factory” begins with percussion evoking the clattering sounds of sewing machines. Review: With Protest and Fire, an Oratorio Mourns a Tragedy 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z FRI-SUN Display of 140 judged quilts, tea room, silent auction, demos, bazaar, raffle, antique sewing machines, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more for July 22-28 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Are things once again humming along at Downton like a certain household’s newfangled sewing machine? ArtsBeat: ‘Downton Abbey’ Recap: A Warning From Mr. Bates 2014-01-27T03:00:44Z “Made in Bangladesh” opens with a close-up of a woman threading a sewing machine. ‘Made in Bangladesh’ Review: A Quiet Power in Collective Efforts 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z It adds society galas, fashion shows, vintage stores, Liberty of London and sewing machines — and the idea that it is through fashion that Cruella is freed to be her true, dastardly self. In ‘Cruella,’ Fashion Is Toxic 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z The Kingston Trio When Stockade Tavern opened three years ago, selling sophisticated cocktails in a one-time Singer sewing machine factory in Kingston’s 17th-century Stockade District, the bar’s arrival foreshadowed changes for New York’s former capital. 36 Hours in the Hudson Valley, New York 2013-07-26T15:18:39Z It describes a 19th-century séance in which entranced participants act in concert, like the parts of a sewing machine. Joachim Koester: ‘Body Electric’ 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Hoping to prove her fiancé wrong, she hid the fabric and sewing machine in the back of her closet. Feeling Crafty? Make Your Own Wedding Day Look. 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Thomas, who turned 36 in September, never studied fashion or garment making, and he can’t work a sewing machine. Is It Street Wear or Is It Art? 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z They’d openly chat with audience members during the performance and be there for the Q. and A. afterward, usually at their sewing machines. Kristina Wong’s Pandemic Story: Sewing With Her Aunties 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z The author's achievements can be traced back to those gifts: the typewriter that allowed her to express herself, a suitcase to escape the prejudices of her community, and a sewing machine to teach her self-sufficiency. 10 famous authors and their moms 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z Historical Society archives amid a remarkably varied set of holdings, from a sewing machine used to create the first rainbow flags to the sequinned outfits worn by the disco star Sylvester. The Moving Revelations of Gay Home Movies 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z People in that income bracket aren’t leveraging their credit card debt by buying skeins of yarn or sewing machines and fabric. "Making It" and the bittersweet economics of crafting culture 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Families sell all their possessions - fridges, sewing machines - to earn the price of a holiday on the beach. Brazilian documentary asks: do we live for work or work for life? 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z My mother’s sewing machine, by the way, was indestructible. Wife/Mother/Worker/Spy: Altered by a Sewing Machine 2009-12-17T06:11:40Z Like his mother, who smuggled her portable sewing machine into the camps and made curtains for the family’s barracks, the internees try to add beauty to the place where they find themselves. George Takei Guides ‘Allegiance,’ a Musical, Not a Starship 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Safer to place faith in inanimate objects – in Magdaleen's case, an old Swiss sewing machine. Edinburgh fringe theatre roundup 2012-08-11T23:05:48Z If you know how to use a sewing machine then, using a straight stitch, start slightly before the rip, stitching on the existing seam line. How to mend a ripped seam 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z A seamstress picks a bundle and does all the sewing on a vintage Pfaff sewing machine. What’s New at Langlitz Leathers? Nothing 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z At the time of Warhol’s death, a stack of the photos was found next to a sewing machine, waiting to be stitched. For Warhol, ’15 Brings More Fame 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z I didn’t even work with a sewing machine,” Van Herpen says. Iris van Herpen’s astonishing designs don’t look like ‘clothes.’ They look like the future. 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z “I became obsessed with the idea of making pillows for our house,” said Ms. Cohen, “never mind the fact that I had technically never used my sewing machine before.” Is Good Taste Teachable? 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z “The crack was so huge I could put my hand in it,” said Ms. Begum, the single mother, who was then a sewing machine operator for Ither Tex Ltd., the fifth-floor tenant. Why Won’t We Learn from the Survivors of the Rana Plaza Disaster? 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z But the mood across the exhibition hall is mostly contemporary, from displays of the latest sewing machines to how to download knitting patterns onto a PDF file on a computer. A stitch online saves time: British show highlights knitting is trendy 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z “It created a whole snowball effect, and by the end of April, you really could not find a single sewing machine below $500 in the United States,” he says. The pandemic-fueled demand for masks has reignited interest in an age-old skill 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z The sewing machines in the Seattle Opera costume shop hadn’t been touched in over a year. Peek behind the scenes as some Seattle performing arts groups prepare for fall 2021 — their first in-person shows in over a year 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Using a sewing machine, sew along the edges, or hand-stitch with needle and thread, to avoid the edges fraying. A DIY potting tarp to make indoor gardening mess-free 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z She was a gifted seamstress who earned her family's keep with her Singer sewing machine. T Magazine: Back to Bernalda 2012-11-15T14:01:25Z Davis himself was just 6 when his maternal grandmother taught him how to use a sewing machine. A Designer Who Celebrates West Indian Elegance 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z His father, Joseph, worked as a welder for the Singer sewing machine company, and his mother, Louise, sewed for a furrier. Wayne Shorter, Intrepid Saxophonist and Composer, Dies at 89 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The sewing machines are once again switched on in the workroom. Perspective | Designers made New York fashion week happen. Sort of. 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z In 1889, in a Detroit loft, Hamilton Carhartt manufactured overalls with two sewing machines and five employees for railroad workers, some of whom offered design input. When the Heart Belongs to Carhartt 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z But the sewing machine on the table is so superbly painted in all its black ungainly force that it upstages everything else. Frederick Cayley Robinson: Acts of Mercy 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z “We all accept that this is how it is,” the woman said from her sewing machine, surrounded by cloth rolls and tape measures. Inside Italy’s Shadow Economy 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z The first time Japanese customers visited the factory they were in raptures over a Union Made sewing machine, Mr. Kidder recalled. On the Runway Blog: Behind the Southern Road Trip 2013-08-15T17:35:03Z “I’m not a fine tailor. What I do with a sewing machine is attach two things together. It’s sort of like civilized glue.” Machine Dazzle: How Many Ways Can You Say Fabulous? 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z The adjacent room held a worktable strewn with fabric swatches, a sewing machine, back issues of the magazine, clothes on hangars, rolls of wallpaper stuffed into a closet. Inside The World of Interiors, Condé Nast’s Secret Weapon 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Oh yes, and on the second floor you can book a work space, play video games with your friends and use a sewing machine, or even a 3-D printer. Read Your Way Through Helsinki 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z It takes her roughly two months to make one jacket, which she crafts using washable cotton fabric and a sewing machine. 100-year-old woman makes custom jackets by hand and gives them away 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z FRI Help make quilts for families whose infants pass away at Providence Hospital; materials provided; bring your own sewing machine and basic sewing tools, or help with cutting and pressing; 10 a.m. Community calendar 2012-01-18T22:17:04Z During the pandemic, I saw Asian American women not as quiet, subservient virus passers but as warriors behind sewing machines doing the work of protecting Americans. Kristina Wong’s Pandemic Story: Sewing With Her Aunties 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z It all began one summer, I thought it would be fun to dust off the old sewing machine in the Cresci family attic. Secrets of a casual seamstress: the joy of making your own clothes 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z This sewing machine has been in my family for 40 years. 'I bought this mixer when I was pregnant. My son is now 35': Guardian readers on the appliances that just won’t quit 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Sitting alone at her sewing machine, Ms. Schiller paused every time she was tempted to share an observation with her friends. Everyone Has Left the Chat 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z This outpost of the San Francisco cyclist lifestyle and work-wear shop opened last October and vibrates with color and whirring sewing machines. Five Places to Go in D.C.’s North Shaw Neighborhood 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Before the play begins, a scenic painter hangs suspended onstage, touching up a patch of sky, while a woman works at a sewing machine below. ‘Six Characters in Search of an Author’ at BAM 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Its exposed brick walls and wood-and-steel-beam floors, and signature rows of old sewing machines suggest nothing so much as an East London warehouse fallen into desuetude. | AllSaints Spitalfields: The Rugged Charm of Jack the Ripper?s London 2010-06-09T01:28:00Z Ms. Tolokonnikova and a compatriot, Ekaterina Nenasheva, had appeared in a central square dressed in Russian prisoner uniforms and armed with a sewing machine, thread and needles, aiming to stitch a Russian flag. Vice Gets a New Columnist: A Founding Member of Pussy Riot 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z It was during this delusional period that I flashed back, nostalgically, to my mother’s sewing machine, a sturdy Singer in a practical beige color, the sewing machine equivalent of nude pantyhose. Wife/Mother/Worker/Spy: Altered by a Sewing Machine 2009-12-17T06:11:40Z The Smoking Rocket is one of the signature drinks at Stitch, a basement cocktail bar in Sydney with cheeky Victorian accents, like the stacks of Singer sewing machines that form the foundation of the bar. A guide to Sydney’s flourishing small-bar scene 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z It was sponsored by Singer, the sewing machine company. Presley’s ‘Comeback Special’ still relevant, 50 years later 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Most of the projects focus on hand-sewing, though a few incorporate sewing machines. Stitching together the case for sewing 2011-04-28T19:19:34Z Much as for a passport photograph, he adopted exactly the same angle for each picture: the effect is striking yet poetic, "an encounter between an umbrella and a sewing machine". Architectural appeal remains as Italy's deconsecrated churches rise again 2013-01-01T12:33:38Z Fourteen sewing machines and mannequins from size 0 to 16 are in the room, as are costumes in various stages of creation. Magic behind custom-made costumes for `Dancing' 2011-03-21T14:02:18Z Mrs. Gottlieb sold her wedding ring to buy a single sewing machine and fabric. Leah Gottlieb, a Designer of Swimsuits, Dies at 94 2012-11-20T23:23:01Z He spent the entirety of this spring at the sewing machine, starting work after breakfast and going until dinner. A 90-year-old Chevy Chase man spent months making masks. In return, he got a birthday parade. 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z In the middle of the store, there’s a sewing table with a Juki sewing machine on it. Critical Shopper: Marimekko in the Flatiron District - Critical Shopper 2011-10-19T22:14:30Z A cracking mix of challenges shows exactly how much you can do with a bit of fabric and a sewing machine – it's pretty inspiring stuff. The Great British Sewing Bee is a crafty move 2013-04-02T14:40:43Z The team: the inventor of the sewing machine, the grande dame of the Grand Ole Opry, the founder of what is now Zimbabwe, and Charles Gulden of condiment fame. Style Invitational Week 1104: HOW’s this? Compare 2 things with the same abbrev. 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Rainbow-colored tulle was piled onto the head of an otherwise naked mannequin, feather boas were slung over a rolling rack, and a lace collar awaited its fate near a Singer sewing machine. The Gaudy, Glittery, Gorgeously Subversive World of Taylor Mac 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z En route to its hopeful denouement, a bustling piano passage at one point amusingly represents the motion of a factory sewing machine. Review | Telling her mother’s war story on stage with a piano 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Across the table, Storm is fidgeting impatiently, chewing his finger and bouncing his leg like a sewing machine. How “Dungeons & Dragons” saved my autistic son 2014-04-15T11:50:00Z And in the middle of the cutting and passing and taping was Andrews, sitting in the corner on the sewing machine and fielding requests from her teammates and others: “Can you sew this?” How a wedding dress maker is trying to stop the spread of Ebola This is another case of sewing machines and umbrellas, the items in question being the eccentric 1960s modernism of the original building, a pavilion with a somewhat wonky paraboloid roof, and Pawson's minimalism. Designs of the Year 2012 ? review 2012-02-12T00:05:52Z And, on the table, his sewing machine: a basic $250 Singer from Michael’s, the arts and crafts emporium. Machine Dazzle: How Many Ways Can You Say Fabulous? 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z “About a week before my wedding I carted my dress and sewing machine to a friend’s and sewed basically all night,” she said. Feeling Crafty? Make Your Own Wedding Day Look. 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z They also get answers to their questions, such as the most asked of all: What sewing machine do I get? DIY fashion influencer Mimi G overcame homelessness to build a thriving business 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z He was recently named a brand ambassador for Janome, a sewing machine company. More Men Reach for Sewing Machines 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z It was titled “Last-Minute Mother’s Day Gifts In Home & Kitchen” and suggested gifts for the “high-tech homemaker,” including a garment steamer, a sewing machine and a shiny Cuisinart slow cooker. This Mother’s Day, Amazon thinks I am a 1950s housewife 2014-05-11T10:58:00Z The show’s biggest, most hectic installation, it replicates the workings of the artist’s brain with moving parts that include a model train and a sewing machine. Art Review: ‘Jason Rhoades: Four Roads’ at Penn 2013-12-19T23:02:30Z Some are gilded poster-boys, some are Marxist militants, and some are lowly seamstresses, supposed sitcom fodder, hunched over their Singer sewing machines,expecting an honest day's wage for an honest day's work. Made in Dagenham 2010-09-20T23:36:00Z Fittingly, at the tender heart of this book is a treadle sewing machine used by his grandmother, Mamá Tey, to support the family in El Salvador and, later, San Francisco. A Salvadoran-American Assembles the Fragments of a Violent Cultural History 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z The toy market was flooded with cast-iron horseless carriages — cars, in today’s language — and trucks, sewing machines and laundry wringers, trains and banks. Smithsonian tells a toy story that goes back more than a century 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z His mother, a dressmaker, worked in it all day long with her sewing machine and her customers sitting around in their robes. Edmund White's top 10 New York books 2011-01-12T12:24:11Z After selling sewing machines door to door, Mr. Lewis tried his luck in Nashville, without success. Jerry Lee Lewis, a Rock ’n’ Roll Original, Dies at 87 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z At a coastal hamlet called Owls Head, he left shutters, filing cabinets, buoys, anchors, marbles, toy soldiers, chandeliers, sleigh bells and sewing machines largely exposed to sea air. Antiques: Prized Chinese Crafts, Delicate and Detailed 2011-01-27T21:37:59Z Now, some of those combative memories have been replaced by more serene scenes, like one of a man stitching intricate images with a portable bicycle-powered sewing machine. Oakland Journal: Oakland Art Murmur Outgrows Its Name 2012-10-11T04:27:45Z Those who can’t find what they are specifically looking for, or perhaps are on a tight budget, are taking the scissors, fabrics and sewing machines into their amateur hands. Feeling Crafty? Make Your Own Wedding Day Look. 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z This summer, he raffled off two sewing machines, with entries based on participating in the voting process or going to a protest, designating one for a person of color. More Men Reach for Sewing Machines 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Yelawolf raps in a series of nimble incisions, perforating the track like a sewing machine. Music Monday: Mesita, James Pants, Yelawolf 2010-06-28T16:54:00Z Before turning to her sewing machine, Ms. Vislocky checked with Ms. Ash: “I asked if I could go off registry and make something, and she said yes.” Off the Registry: Homemade Wedding Gifts 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z "It's very much like a sewing machine," he observed. Eye for art and artistry amid jigsaw's jumble 2010-12-10T02:15:00Z Colorado’s Arapahoe Libraries offer staffed labs filled with laser cutters, routers, vinyl cutters, band saws, sewing machines and 3-D printers. Kayaks, ukuleles, neckties: The weird and useful things you can check out from local libraries 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Progress and change are flagged by a Singer sewing machine, a motorbike and estate taxes, but very little actually affects the Downton way of life. The TV Watch: ‘Downton Abbey’ Returns for a Fourth Season 2014-01-02T21:12:16Z She continues, “The sewing itself was strenuous work. To sit on the floor pulling the bulky mass of fabric through the throttle of the portable sewing machine, was almost physically impossible at times.” Claes Oldenburg Captured a Carefree (and Consumerist) America 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z When the pandemic shut down businesses in mid-March, people who ran sewing stores, sold sewing machines and did workshops were in a panic about how they would stay afloat. The pandemic-fueled demand for masks has reignited interest in an age-old skill 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Sew a men’s pant; design a bathing suit; learn how to repair a sewing machine. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Empire’ and ‘Pitch’ 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z She wrote string parts that recall sewing machines, and at several points in the score she included the sound of scissors opening and closing. Arming a Chorus of Women with Scissors 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z She dusted off her sewing machine a few days ago, she said, gathering scraps of fabric to make homemade masks. A time of unprecedented fear for parents of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z When Alice Walker was a young woman living in the Jim Crow South, her mother, Minnie Lou, gave her three things — a typewriter, a suitcase, and a sewing machine. 10 famous authors and their moms 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z For sheer incongruity, as defined by Isidore Ducasse — “the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table” — few works can match the five original Surrealist exquisite corpses in MoMA’s collection. Art Review: ?Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration? at MoMA 2012-03-29T22:25:34Z “People dragged machines out of their closets or went online to buy new ones,” Grant says, and stores started selling out of sewing machines, dark fabrics and elastic. The pandemic-fueled demand for masks has reignited interest in an age-old skill 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Then, in 1871, James B. Morrison invented a drill powered by a foot pedal, much like a sewing machine. This Exhibition Has Real Bite 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z She was fortunate: Once, offered a fur coat by her husband, she chose a sewing machine instead and he did not demur. Ardis James Dies at 85; Established Center on Quilts 2011-07-17T06:48:04Z The impeccably clad and coifed housewives and secretaries don’t simply employ the steam irons, sewing machines and other devices — they actually meld with them. Review | In the galleries: A satire on images of women and the objects they advertise 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z The piece opens with driving and increasing mechanical noise, like a giant sewing machine about to chew up the theater. Dance Review: Repetitions Build Drama With Rhythm and Gesture 2011-06-14T23:56:46Z Companies started using the material on tabletop sewing machines because it’s slippery, letting fabric move over it quickly. Laminate counters look a lot better than they did in the ’80s. Can they make a comeback? 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Born into a New York family whose fortune was derived from the Singer sewing machine company, Sterling Clark, engineer, army officer and explorer, settled in Paris in 1910. Introduction to Royal Academy's From Paris: A Taste for Impressionism 2012-08-29T21:54:17Z As everything came into focus, he saw he was face-to-face with one of his good friends, Faisal, who worked on the second floor as a sewing machine operator. Why Won’t We Learn from the Survivors of the Rana Plaza Disaster? 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Using the sewing machine his grandmother gave him for his birthday, he has cut up all of his bow ties to test the new concept. Davidson teenager adds bowties to growing resume 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z “I grew up with my grandmother and mom, who are glamorous women, and was given a sewing machine at age 13,” he said. Where Fashion Stylists Shop for Vintage 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z I earned my Ph.D. four years ago and received an expensive sewing machine that I’d coveted. I Came Out to My Family, and It Went Great. Except for My Brother 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z In an airy work room filled with old sewing machines and towering shelves full of fabric, craftspeople stitched, pinned, sewed, stepping back from the mannequins to admire their work. Not Off the Rack: This Year’s Bespoke ‘Nutcracker’ at City Ballet 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Brown, whose clients included the J. C. Penney Company, Singer sewing machines and DuPont, was among the genre’s most sought-after creators. Michael Brown, Whose Industrial Musicals Gave Wings to ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Dies at 93 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z His father, “a Harley snob,” admires the Triumph but says its engine reminds him of a sewing machine. Books of The Times: ‘NOS4A2,’ a Novel by Joe Hill 2013-04-28T20:53:12Z In her self-portraits, Ms. Yeager is often encased in a two-piece suit of her own design, which she whipped up at home on her sewing machine. On the Runway: Beyond Bunny Yeager's Lens, a Shy Pinup 2011-05-18T19:39:20Z The sewing machine was worth the upfront investment, I told my husband, because I’ll be using it for the rest of my life, maybe get into a little quilting on the side. Wife/Mother/Worker/Spy: Altered by a Sewing Machine 2009-12-17T06:11:40Z When Mr. Sofield moved in, he had excavated the basement room and found carcasses of sewing machines along with old sets, props and scripts. On Location: B.D. Wong Tames His Inner Hoarder 2012-09-05T22:37:29Z His father gave him a sewing machine when he was 10. Free to Be... Isaac Mizrahi 2013-08-28T22:35:16Z But instead of acting like a newly minted star, leaning into a world of stylists and on-demand everything, he brought a sewing machine from home. Valee, Kanye West’s New Signee, Is a Rapper Who Just Might Build You a Koi Pond 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z “I dropped them off here and my daughter immediately ran to her sewing machine, knew exactly where it was.” Brand Camp for Kids 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z This is Day 6 with my new sewing machine. Wife/Mother/Worker/Spy: Altered by a Sewing Machine 2009-12-17T06:11:40Z That means saying goodbye to his brave grandmother, who vows that the family will not go hungry if it can hang on to its sewing machine. Books of The Times: Wartime Greece in Alan Furst?s ?Spies of the Balkans? 2010-06-16T22:08:00Z She bought a sewing machine and the book “Quilting for Dummies,” and she started with traditional, ordered patterns. ‘I can’t breathe’: How one Black quilter channels social justice into her work 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z He built a narrow, legless work table that was still big enough for several kid-size sewing machines and bar stools. Meet Penelope: A DIY’d trailer bringing craftiness to a street near you 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z There was hardly a noise except the purr of sewing machines or the slap of the pocket machine and a radio somewhere. A Tennessee Clothing Factory Keeps Up the Old Ways 2013-08-14T22:12:21Z But the great virtue of Eyre's production and Tim Hatley's design, with its array of sewing machines, is that they never let us forget that the musical takes place against a background of work. The Pajama Game – review 2013-04-30T18:00:36Z So for every new machine that comes in and limits the number of workers needed — whether it’s the new digital sewing machine or the printing press that uses lasers — Crawford said he welcomes the innovation. Few may be hanging on Congress’s every word, but the GPO is still printing them If life were a Sally Fields movie, now would be the perfect moment for you to climb on top of your industrial sewing machine and silently hoist a sign above your head that reads “Union!” Social Q?s: Bottle of Cristal, Please 2010-10-22T16:51:00Z And then I asked my mom for a sewing machine, and she bought me a used Singer. For These Designers, Mom Knew Best 2011-05-06T23:14:50Z Of course, every so often we are told that an arts and crafts revival is under way; sewing machines are at the ready, knitting is the new vogue, macrame is on trend. William Morris was right – true joy lies in making it yourself 2013-06-08T23:04:17Z On weekends, the excursion is similar but quieter: The sewing machines are silent. Toy animals come to life on a factory tour of the Vermont Teddy Bear Company 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Later she visits a beauty salon, a women’s weight-lifting tournament, a room with three workers at sewing machines and a rural school, among other sites. Movie Review: ?Where Are You Taking Me,? Kimi Takesue?s Arty Look at Uganda 2012-03-02T01:13:17Z Culinary aptitude or skill with sewing machine aren't required prerequisites to enjoying their cousins on Bravo or Food Network either. "The Big Flower Fight" is Netflix's unnecessary reality floral arrangement 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z But the drawings take us right inside, amid the dusty piles of fabric and the whir of sewing machines. 'Threadbare's' investigative comics explore the hard choice some women face between sweatshops and sex work 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Soon, Becky was in tears – first as she hunched over the sewing machine and then a few minutes later when she fled to the bathroom, slamming the stall door in the face of the cameraman. On the Runway Blog: On Project Runway, a Team of Rivals 2011-08-26T18:59:16Z In the case of Shawn Quinlan, a TV news video editor from Pittsburgh, his first sewing machine came from his stepmom. Male quilters piece new gender, aesthetic paradigms in 'Man-Made' show 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z Their combinations may adhere to the Surrealist tradition of a sewing machine on an ironing board and all that,except that they yield little in the way of enigma. Art Review: Combining People and Machines in Venice 2011-07-08T16:55:52Z Pat also notes, uncritically, that his mother routinely beat him and his siblings with a sewing machine belt, and that he was spanked until he was 17 years old. Style Invitational Week 1099: Yours for the asking — it’s Questionable Journalism A large and ornate cousin of the sewing machine, the Sholes & Glidden did not permit the typist to see the surface of the paper, which was imprinted — uppercase only — from below. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘Click! Clack! Ding! The American Typewriter’ at the New Britain Museum of American Art 2014-04-27T00:23:07Z After roll call and a breakfast of gruel, they spend seven to eight hours a day at work, usually hunched over sewing machines working on uniforms and other clothing. Pussy Riot members face tough life in penal colony 2012-10-14T10:33:10Z “Instead of destroying a face mask display, I sat at my daughter’s sewing machine and began sewing masks.” Her daughter died, so she sat at the teen’s sewing machine and made masks to ‘create my own therapy’ 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z The book showcases her successes, like the “Lucille Ball” look, for which she took a baggy polka-dot dress, snipped off its sleeves, ran the new armholes through a sewing machine and voilà, bonbon time. Books of Style: Holiday Reading, Some Homework Required 2012-12-12T23:23:53Z For the Czechoslovak Chamber of Commerce, he developed advertising materials for sewing machines, Pilsner Urquell beer and Praha light bulbs. ‘Pop-Ups From Prague’ Celebrates Vojtech Kubasta 2014-01-30T13:00:01Z Her long hair became entangled in the sewing machine, she said, “and I couldn’t free myself because my hand was stuck.” Why Won’t We Learn from the Survivors of the Rana Plaza Disaster? 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z "They collected what they could from the rubble, repaired the sewing machines. They borrowed money, and life began anew." Gentrification tears at Istanbul's historically diverse fabric 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z As Abboud glides between industrial sewing machines and Italian steamers, an elaborate overhead conveyor system zips half-finished suits around the room; one of them gently whacks him in the shoulder. Joseph Abboud’s suits aren’t hip, but they’re made in America. Can that make them cool? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Fashion Hub helps more than 100 designers in Rwanda by offering them training and access to tools such as pattern cutters and sewing machines. Threading Needle of Hope in Rwanda 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z After graduating from Evander Childs High School in the Bronx, he went to work as a machinist’s helper and seemed headed for a career repairing sewing machines. Carl Reiner, Multifaceted Master of Comedy, Is Dead at 98 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Bryan Morris, co-owner of the four Washington-area Brothers Sew & Vac stores, says each of his stores was getting 10 or 20 calls a day from people looking to buy or repair sewing machines. The pandemic-fueled demand for masks has reignited interest in an age-old skill 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z I still have the sewing machine that my grandmother bought me and I still make and alter all my clothes. Juno Temple's teenage obsessions: 'Brandon Flowers was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen' 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z “Recently I dusted off my old sewing machine,” he said. Todd Snyder on How to Add Patches to Your Jeans 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z More than 100 tailors sit at sewing machines, some ancient, or work by hand. It’s the Economy: What’s a $4,000 Suit Worth? 2012-09-05T03:19:28Z She praised her mom, who worked "so hard all her life" as a sewing machine operator. "It helps to be born rich": "View” co-hosts criticize Kim Kardashian’s "tone deaf" advice for women 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z And the West Country marquee full of pastel shades has been replaced by an East End workshop full of sewing machines and haberdashery. The Great British Sewing Bee; Crossing England in a Punt: River of Dreams – TV review 2013-04-03T06:00:07Z Unknown hands prised the artwork, entitled Slave Labour and showing a small barefooted boy making Union Jack bunting in a sewing machine, from the wall of a Poundland shop in Wood Green last week. Banksy mural mystery deepens as it heads for sale in Miami 2013-02-20T13:55:00Z They divided the bedroom closet, bought a bedroom chest for each and installed two narrow mirrored Ikea Brimnes wardrobes in the den for out-of-season clothes, beach towels, a sewing machine and bike helmets. Small-space living: A 707-square-foot rental in Shaw “I heard someone saw them bringing in some sewing machines,” said one. Marc Jacobs and the End of Fashion 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z She first learned to sew at age 4, on her great-aunt’s treadle sewing machine. How a wedding dress maker is trying to stop the spread of Ebola In an adjacent space, a painting of a Madonna gazing down at three people at sea in a rowboat hangs over early-1900s Singer sewing machines. Havana artisan makes guayaberas for the famous 2011-06-20T18:57:14Z The explosion is actually rendered on the surface of a closet door in a mundane apartment where the girls sit next to a pink bucket and a sewing machine. A Long Beach-born painter captures the surrealism of the Cambodian American experience 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Cuban seamstress Yamidely Cervantes has bought a new sewing machine for the first time in years, plus a refrigerator and a cellphone - all on Russia's dime. Special Report: How Cubans were recruited to fight for Russia 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z Wang, though, is most interested in the marginal but passionate personal lives of the workers whose youth is spent between sewing machines and dingy dormitories. At the New York Film Festival, a sluggish fall movie season seeks a higher gear 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z And just sewing duct tape was challenging: Nanubhai said she’d worried that the process would damage her sewing machine, but a teacher’s suggestion of using silicon spray helped a lot. How a Skyline High School graduate made a prom dress entirely out of duct tape 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z Items featured on the prop house’s Instagram account have included a vintage sewing machine table, surfboard and solid wood wardrobe cabinet. Sony Pictures to close Culver City prop house, which supplied Hollywood productions 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z My father worked six days a week in a leather factory where the rat-tat-tatting of sewing machines never stopped and layoffs were a constant reality. What I learned from the South Bronx — and how it can help us today 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z But for hours on end, his battered, electric sewing machine sits idle. Load-shedding could switch South Africans off the ANC 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z “I would sit at my sewing machine for hours every day with ‘Sex and the City’ playing on my computer screen. 'And Just Like That...' was a jolt for 'Sex and the City' fans. For Season 2, they have suggestions 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z A few doors up the street, Binnaz is working a sewing machine at a shop for mending clothes. Turkish presidency run-off decides if Erdogan should have five more years 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z A spokesman said it provided "a wide range of practical support for students to work from home", which included sewing machines for second and third-year fashion students, as well as "mini mannequins". University student complaints hit record high in England and Wales for fourth successive year 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Her sewing machine table stands next to a bunk bed, and clothes pile up on a chair next to it. They found work in Russia. Then it became a deadly trap 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z A friend of Yulia's husband, who was driving to the UK, brought all her sewing machines, fabrics and mannequins to her and Yulia hoped to get some orders. The Ukrainian refugees making a living somewhere new 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z Gorti learned to use a sewing machine and they created low-budget initial prototypes — the “minimum viable product” in Silicon Valley startup lingo — using rubber balls and puppets bought online. Would you buy a dog toy from these guys? Pet owners say yes 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z In 1998 he became a day laborer, rising at 5 a.m. to unload trailers, shovel cement, work a sewing machine and tend gardens. A Mexican masked man fights for immigrant worker rights, in the streets and on the radio 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z One grandfather worked in a Singer sewing machine factory, while a grandmother was a Glasgow bus conductor. Muslim leader for Scotland a sign of UK political diversity 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z One teenager ran green and yellow fabric through a sewing machine as he sat beneath a beach umbrella bearing a picture of Angola’s president, João Lourenço. Restoring Glory of Angola’s Carnival, With a Puny Budget but Much Passion 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z "Our sewing machines are suited for making corsets and evening gowns, but we did the best we could." Ukraine war: Designing oufits for Beyoncé and Smith Smith from Kyiv 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z In another, two women notice her two sewing machines. L.A. skid row residents angry over the destruction of a community hub 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z His first job was in a sewing machine factory. 'First and foremost I am Humza the father' 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z A Hello Kitty sewing machine stands at the ready. Review: Kristina Wong assembled 'aunties' to sew masks. Her pandemic mission is now a must-see show 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z In their warm workshop decorated with ancestral photos, the couple bend over their sewing machines. Belgian carnival town celebrates again after COVID hiatus 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z In the early days of war, fashion was far from their minds - they donated sewing machines to make bulletproof vests and turned their skills elsewhere. Ukraine war: Designing oufits for Beyoncé and Smith Smith from Kyiv 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z The whirring of four electric sewing machines, snips from two industrial-sized scissors and the sizzle of moist fabric as steam billows from a large pressing iron. Nigeria election 2023: The oil land with no electricity 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z He took up quilting after watching “Project Runway” and acquired five sewing machines. This doctor prescribes ketamine to thousands online. It’s all legal. 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z The owners will, if the present measure be passed, again rule the entire sewing machine trade. 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: January 2023 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z At Preslow’s factory some 50 miles north of Mexico City, 200 seamstresses leaned over clattering sewing machines on a recent morning, stitching garments amid the strains of Mexican folk music. ‘OK, Mexico, Save Me’: After China, This Is Where Globalization May Lead 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z Along with her colleague Raymonde Coly, they work in a tiny workshop with two sewing machines to make them from local cloth, with a distinctive baobab image stitched on. The Senegal man on a mission to plant five million trees 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z But it did not matter to her - she was using a brown manual Butterfly sewing machine. Nigeria election 2023: The oil land with no electricity 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Nearby, a mechanized sculpture composed of three ordinary Singer sewing machines dances like a Rockettes chorus line, with traditional African music “singing” from attached megaphones. Review: William Kentridge's sprawling Broad installation is an extraordinary meditation on apartheid 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Tolokonnikova wrote that inmates at her facility were kept at sewing machines for much longer, making police uniforms, and went a month or more with no days off. Brittney Griner facing 'terrible' life at remote penal colony in Russia 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z At work, he hastily swallowed lunches of white rice and tofu, surrounded by knee-high piles of fabric and the drone of sewing machines. The Chinese Dream, Denied 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z A variety of devices and instruments appear in your work — typewriter, coffee pot, movie camera, telescope, phonograph, sewing machine. Why artist William Kentridge is embracing shadows in his new Broad show 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z She had to give up on a sewing course when she discovered that operating the sewing machine pedal was just too painful. Changing the lives of Senegalese people disabled by clubfoot 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z Bosideng, a top seller in women’s fashion, was founded in 1976 by a group of people in rural villages with hand-held sewing machines. On Alibaba’s Singles Day, Shopping Baskets Are Filled With Chinese Brands 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Long days are spent in forced labor, working at sewing machines, with only a short break for lunch. Brittney Griner facing 'terrible' life at remote penal colony in Russia 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z “There isn’t enough work for everyone,” Mr. Xie, 31, a soft-spoken man with hunched shoulders from years bent over sewing machines, said then. The Chinese Dream, Denied 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z While Leaf’s palette has gradually grown more muted, certain images — wings, hobby horses, sewing machines — have stayed with her across the decades, as has her sense of wit and exploration. The Visual Artist Who Thinks of Herself as a Dancer or an Aviator 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Lewis sold sewing machines door to door, auditioned unsuccessfully in Nashville and Louisiana, and played as he could at regional clubs. Jerry Lee Lewis, original wild man of rock 'n' roll, has died 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Cookware, sewing machines, gardening tools, power tools, bike-repair implements, extension cords of various lengths — if you need it, they’ve probably got it. 8 little-known things you can check out from L.A. libraries (that aren't books) 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Area residents can sign up to learn how to use a sewing machine and then reserve time to use it at later dates. MLK Library is now home to a shattered-glass sculpture of VP Harris 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z With a $50 used sewing machine, she made the first prototype — an “ugly” black and gold scrunchie with navy blue thread, she said. Rommy Hunt Revson, who popularized scrunchie, dies at 78 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z One woman shook her head “no” without even looking up from her sewing machine. China quashes social media about protest banners in Beijing 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z At a small factory, staff are hunched over their sewing machines, furiously making up for an entire season of lost production following a lockdown. Zero-Covid: How Xi's flagship policy is spoiling his party 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Before they parted, Shim bought his brother shoes and a sewing machine and gave him the leather gloves he was wearing. Reunions could be a dream too far for Korean families torn apart by war 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Mementos from the Duran family are scattered throughout the space, from the sewing machine given them by their neighbor to their mother’s homemade candles. The Durans are just so damn fun — and so is their inviting plant shop 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z She played dotted phrases like a sewing machine laying a seam around the music’s perimeter. Perspective | jaimie branch’s ‘comets of sound’ changed the arc of today’s jazz 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z "These are very dear colours to us," she tells me over the whirring sound of sewing machines. Ukraine war: Kyiv counts cost of fragile independence 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z She sat at a side window sewing furiously on a sewing machine. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z For women, the purchase of a sewing machine meant that a shirt could be made in one hour, instead of fourteen. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z A young boy balanced a sewing machine wrapped in a red scarf on his shoulder. ‘I Have Nothing Left’: Flooding Adds to Afghanistan’s Crises 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Displays of the nonprofit’s quirkier acquisitions flank the rows of furniture: antique typewriters and sewing machines, ornate chandeliers and a white fiberglass reproduction of the Statue of Liberty. Landlord tells Prince George’s nonprofit it must find a new home 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Cookware, sewing machines, gardening tools, power tools, bike-repair implements, extension cords of various lengths. 8 little-known things you can check out from L.A. libraries (that aren't books) 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z A row of sewing machines sits in the corner, red heart balloons hang from the ceiling. From Kabul and beyond, a year of Taliban rule in Afghanistan 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z Additionally, farmers and housewives purchased farm equipment and sewing machines on credit, considering these items investments rather than luxuries. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Part of “The Mustangs,” a group of campers and their counselors, which included Glasgow, Isaiah said he got to work with a sewing machine and jump in the pool with his group. Burn survivors gather for annual summer camp 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z While he was taking time off work to heal, he came upon a vintage sewing machine and taught himself the craft. It's one thing to take over the Getty Center. An L.A. designer brings Nate Dogg with them 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Mementos from the Duran family scatter throughout the space, from the sewing machine gifted by their neighbor to their mother’s homemade candles. Bring your sad plants to the 'Plant ER' at this inviting shop you won't want to leave 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Chakrabarti found the looms she needed at Creative Arts Workshops, a nearby community arts center, and used the sewing machines at Make Haven, another local organization that supports artists. The New New Haven 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z Reece, a supersoldier who can also rock a sewing machine, is the only survivor of a covert operation in the Middle East gone wrong. Chris Pratt strikes back in violent, faintly poisonous 'Terminal List' 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z “When you look at the history of women who sewed as an industry, you see all these fantastic images of sewing machines and them sitting there,” said Carter, looking at her family sewing machine. Sunday Best: ‘Black Panther’ costume designer Ruth E. Carter shares stories behind her works at Seattle’s MoPOP exhibit 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z When a friend gave her a toy sewing machine, she researched how to use it — and fix it — on YouTube. ‘She Was My Sweet Girl’: Remembering the Victims of the Uvalde Shooting 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z Upstairs, sewing machines clatter as women mark patterns on cloth being shaped into bulletproof vests. Protect the body: Ukraine volunteers craft armor, camouflage 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z Now, when she works at her sewing machine in Queens, the scars from Mr. Camacho’s tattoos are just barely visible, covered by colorful roses. ‘A Monster in Our Midst’: How a Tattoo Industry #MeToo Case Collapsed 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Another time, his company set up a big, clattering factory-style sewing machine in the lobby, so visitors could watch it embroider multiple towels simultaneously. When the Textile Industry Was Forced Out of the Textile Building 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z This work, so grounded in an examination of the past and its impact on the present and future, has even made Carter look at her grandmother’s sewing machine, which sits on display at MoPOP, differently. Sunday Best: ‘Black Panther’ costume designer Ruth E. Carter shares stories behind her works at Seattle’s MoPOP exhibit 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z Instead, you walk, alone and in silence, from one abandoned room to the next in a melancholy daze, circling around redundant machinery, between rows of sewing machines and past old telephones and empty beds. Perspective | A great Venice Biennale unfolds, against all the odds 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z So I thought of the sewing machine as a tool that could be used as a creative outlet. Tschabalala Self Sought a Painting Style That Was Wholly Unique 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z To pay for medical supplies, she sold two of her three sewing machines, which she used to mend neighbors’ clothes in exchange for money. Pension hike not enough for Venezuelans to afford basic food 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z It's not just sewing machines that have to keep running. Firms struggle amid Sri Lanka's economic crisis 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z When Elias Howe invented the sewing machine in 1845, Lynn manufacturers used it to replace hand stitching without altering their methods fundamentally. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Now the company operates in two borrowed classrooms of a school, its workers delicately piecing together materials near students’ decades-old sewing machines. Ukrainian fashion brand in bombarded city picks up and flees 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z Another shared a photo of its patriarch standing in front of his sewing machine shop in Harput in the Ottoman Empire, in a region of modern-day Turkey. Betrayal and ‘blood money’: How fraud cheated Armenian genocide victims 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Using a foot-operated sewing machine, the 51-year-old Philippine seamstress stitches and weaves plastics and other materials into inventive and fashionable frocks and gowns, sometimes completed by headdresses. Philippine designer fashions gowns out of recycled trash 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z As the quiet, constant hum of various sewing machines overlaps with music floating up from dance studios below, a team of busy costumers concentrate on the task at hand. Tutus taking flight | Provided by Pacific Northwest Ballet 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z So, knowing how to use a sewing machine, they eventually just decided to make their own. The patchwork groups sharing gender-affirming underwear patterns 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z The sewing machine reduced the amount of time it took to sew an item of clothing. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I. M. Singer improved the sewing machine by inventing a foot treadle. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I could buy an extra sewing machine but I don’t have the person to put behind it,” he said. Mountain towns across the West are facing a housing crisis. Can the Methow break the mold? 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z “It was very difficult at home,” she said, standing next to whirring sewing machines in the training room. India's textile industry revs up, giving hope on jobs for PM Modi 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Now that Smith has won, though, he’s had second thoughts about the sewing machine because it might undercut his claim to making hand-sewn leather bags. District funds help ex-offenders launch businesses. But the path has not been easy for some. 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z In street clothes, he drives a silver pickup truck with a yellow light on top through the port’s busy lanes, past a greasy-spoon luncheonette and beyond a gate by a former Singer sewing machine factory. A Catholic chapel at Port Newark is where longshoremen go to find an oasis 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Still, she scraped together enough to buy her first industrial sewing machine and eventually her first home, in a rough part of La Puente. Abuela Rosa led her family to the middle class. In the face of COVID, they guard her legacy 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z His mother was an expert seamstress and sold sewing machines; his father worked in a creamery and later ran a grain elevator. Bob Dole, Old Soldier and Stalwart of the Senate, Dies at 98 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z His father ran a cream and egg business and managed a grain elevator, and his mother sold sewing machines and vacuum cleaners to help support the family during the Depression. Senate leader, presidential candidate Bob Dole dies at 98 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Conway: He had a sewing machine and he would make slipcovers, curtains and pillows for the living room. Tim Conway’s daughter recalls legal battle with stepmom over ‘Carol Burnett Show’ star’s care: ‘It was a mess’ 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Her mother gave her a sewing machine and she made dresses for herself and her sisters. Afghan girls, faraway relatives worry over dreams disrupted 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z The business Rosa started with a single sewing machine enabled her children to open their own stores, then her grandchildren to vault into the white-collar world. Abuela Rosa led her family to the middle class. In the face of COVID, they guard her legacy 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z He’d buy pairs of pants, cutting them up and stitching patterns together, wearing down sewing machine after sewing machine. Marcus Allen's son Harrison is carrying the load at Dorsey but fashion is his calling 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z Forced to sell her best kitchenware in a flea market, she is hoping she won’t have to part with her sewing machine, too. Across Kabul, evidence of Afghanistan’s fast-unraveling economy under the Taliban is everywhere 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z “If you teach me how to work a sewing machine.” Perspective | So you think you can sew: My experience with a needle is somewhat patchy. 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z It's like trying to make a dress when someone keeps stealing your sewing machine. Infrastructure bill debacle proves Elizabeth Warren right: To get things done, first fix corruption 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z The ads touted Singer sewing machines and typewriters for providing “increased time and opportunity for women’s rest and recreation or for other occupations from which they had been debarred.” ‘Important conversations’ fuel 130-year Woman’s Century Club 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Workers at Riedell use industrial sewing machines to punch through the tough leather. How to Build Roller Skates 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z In the second image of the triptych, Ms. López’s mother labors at a sewing machine, mending the blue fabric with her expert hands. Yolanda López, artist who elevated Latina life, dies at 78 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z With each press of Ruth’s foot on the pedal, staccato bursts came from her sewing machine. Perspective | So you think you can sew: My experience with a needle is somewhat patchy. 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z Just as the camera plunged painters into a state of permanent existential crisis, the sewing machine provoked bitter pushback. Francis Criss painted 'Alma Sewing' as a study of composure, and unruliness His business was growing so fast before the earthquake that he was considering buying more sewing machines and hiring people to help him. Perspective | She has devoted her life to helping Haiti. She doesn’t plan to stop now. 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z The footage also shows rows of sewing machines that prisoners use, a solitary confinement cell with a squat toilet and exterior areas of the prison. Leaked footage shows grim conditions in Iran’s Evin prison 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Filson is reportedly selling off many of the sewing machines and other equipment used by recently laid-off local workers, industry insiders say. More layoffs and a potential future strategy come to light at Filson 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z Atop it was her sewing machine, jars of buttons, a wooden box that unfolded, cantilevering out to reveal spools of thread. Perspective | So you think you can sew: My experience with a needle is somewhat patchy. 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z Walter Hunt, the American inventor who came up with the next workable sewing machine, abandoned his design when he grasped a horrible inevitability: his invention would put thousands of tailors and seamstresses out of work. Francis Criss painted 'Alma Sewing' as a study of composure, and unruliness Mustafa Nabo, from Syria, used to work long days on his electric sewing machine, powered by the grid and supplemental power from a generator. Collapse: Inside Lebanon’s Worst Economic Meltdown in More Than a Century 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z As they chatted over their sewing machines, he showed genuine interest in her stories about the two young children she was raising alone, Sandy and her older brother, Arturo. Bigotry confines their trans daughter at home. Her parents worry what she'll do when they're gone 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Serena started sewing on her mum's sewing machine when she was 15. Scottish medical student is Sewing Bee's youngest winner 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z The fashion students and social workers want to get hold of professional sewing machines and fabric from fashion brands. Grand designs: the refugees in Paris with an eye on fashion 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z A hundred years later, cameras and sewing machines were both ubiquitous, and the world had duly adjusted. Francis Criss painted 'Alma Sewing' as a study of composure, and unruliness Even when I’m running on fossil fuel, the Kia engine, which is roughly the size of a sewing machine, is getting about 50 miles per gallon. Column: On the road to going all electric, are we there yet? No, but moving in the right direction 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z To Americans with supercomputers, a.k.a. smartphones, in their pockets, the progress from scythes to threshing machines, from hand stitching to sewing machines, and from less to more efficient steelmaking might seem banal. Opinion | Subsidizing America’s most important product: Innovation 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Over succeeding days, her mother taught her and her sisters how to sew by hand, expanding to a sewing machine once the power was restored. Pinball, muscle cars and playing guitar. We’re looking for pre-pandemic hobbies to make us feel better. 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z Do you think of a high school classroom full of sewing machines, pots and pans, mops and brooms — in other words, a vestige of our sexist past? The history of "home economics" is both surprisingly radical and conspicuously regressive 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z After his return to America, he painted Alma at her sewing machine — his finest work. Francis Criss painted 'Alma Sewing' as a study of composure, and unruliness The group has been putting its sewing machines together since 2014, when several current members came up with the idea after discovering the organization, which the club requested not to identify. Wayland Woman’s Club continues nonprofit work amid pandemic 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z Customers come for modern fabric, all-natural yarn, sewing machines and irons, and patterns. 7 local craft shops that will help unleash your creativity 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z To make their flying machine more aerodynamic, Wilbur and Orville Wright stitched unbleached Pride of the West muslin fabric with a Singer sewing machine and stretched it across the aircraft’s wings, rudder and elevator. Ingenuity's 'Wright Stuff': A Piece of the Wright Flyer Will Soar on Mars 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z There was talk of teaching students about the role of the sewing machine in capitalism? The history of "home economics" is both surprisingly radical and conspicuously regressive 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z Alma’s worktable and the sewing machine recede at an angle that rhymes with the descending right leg of the paper mannequin pinned to the wall. Francis Criss painted 'Alma Sewing' as a study of composure, and unruliness I even — God forgive me — bought and successfully threaded a sewing machine with the sincere belief that I would learn how to make my own face masks and, quite possibly, curtains. Column: I abandoned all my big pandemic projects. Here are 13 lessons I learned instead 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Four years later, his Singer sewing machine is still working overtime in his mom’s apartment. This teen makes tiny bow ties for shelter dogs to help them look spiffy and get adopted 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z It was the one day this month that Klaiber’s Sewing Center takes in sewing machines for repair. Indiana sewing machine repair shop thrives during pandemic 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z Until recently, the 37-year-old mother of three and former sewing machine operator would spend her days representing workers with labor complaints and helping members of the Federation of Garment Workers Myanmar unionize their factories. Myanmar’s Defiant Garment Workers Demand That Fashion Pay Attention 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z The first mechanical sewing machine had been patented in France a hundred years earlier — around the same time photography was invented. Francis Criss painted 'Alma Sewing' as a study of composure, and unruliness If anyone needs a sewing machine — fully threaded and never used! — please let me know. Column: I abandoned all my big pandemic projects. Here are 13 lessons I learned instead 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Darius was diagnosed with a speech disorder and a fine motor skills disorder when he was 2, she said, and she initially worried that he might injure himself if he used his sister’s sewing machine. This teen makes tiny bow ties for shelter dogs to help them look spiffy and get adopted 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z The hinges are rusty, and a look inside reveals a mid-1980s sewing machine with black electrical tape wrapped around the cord. Indiana sewing machine repair shop thrives during pandemic 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z In a factory not far from a holy river, sewing machines hum in the morning light. From the first stitch to the final zip: The global journey of a COVID-19 body bag 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z The great-grandmother painstakingly embroidered features using a sewing machine, stuffed fabric with cotton and tailored tiny dresses. Woman’s salve for devastation of Lebanese blast: 100 dolls 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z The girl would like to keep her sewing machine in her room, but her parents thought better of it. Virginia girl makes masks to help with cancer research 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z Now 70 and diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, he has spent more than two decades in prison working diligently, the board noted, including as a janitor, fabric cutter and sewing machine operator. New laws lead some Washington prosecutors to rethink three-strike life sentences 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z In addition to repairing sewing machines, Klaiber’s sells them, as well as thread and other quilting supplies. Indiana sewing machine repair shop thrives during pandemic 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z It wasn’t long before she found odd jobs like selling sewing machines and waitressing – work that offered a measly salary, but enough to send money back home, so that her parents could buy food. Lives Lost: Families find solace in memories and mementos 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Today, some 50 women sit with their sewing machines, creating two-ply cloth masks. Iranian women’s group empowers amid pandemic by making masks 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z At Tzicc, she would sit at her table five days a week and stitch together T-shirts and gym leggings using an old, worn sewing machine. Pandemic crushes global supply chains, workers at both ends 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z His mother at times used her sewing machine to tailor his outfits for parties, but she didn’t always understand her children’s style. The costume design in Steve McQueen’s 'Small Axe' is a rebellion of style 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z The partially constructed quilt lies crumpled on a table in the back next to a fancy Baby Lock sewing machine. Indiana sewing machine repair shop thrives during pandemic 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z Kat Panchal hadn’t yet learned how to use her sewing machine when the pandemic started. Etsy Was a Twee Culture Punchline. Now It’s a Wall Street Darling. 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z “They allowed me to use a sewing machine to learn how to sew. They also provided materials for me to work on.” Iranian women’s group empowers amid pandemic by making masks 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z You wonder, on some level, where this leaves Paul Pogba: a master tailor in a world of sewing machines, a midfielder who prefers to pick teams apart rather than rip them open. Solskjær takes the handbrake off but can he do it when it really matters? | Jonathan Liew 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Suing hadn’t sewn on a sewing machine since she was in a seventh-grade life skills class in her hometown of Defiance, Ohio. Aurora woman strives to sew comfortable masks 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z Ms. Folk worked as a sewing machine operator in a factory until she was injured in an auto accident. 2016 Nonvoters, a Key Prize for Biden and Trump, Turn Out in Droves 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z The scale is 1 inch equals 1 foot and it is built in the top of a very old, wooden sewing machine lid that I refinished and stained. From miniature houses to a one-room schoolhouse, Seattle Times readers show off pandemic projects 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z The group often meet at her home with their sewing machines in tow. Decatur-area effort helps military members overseas 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z More than 100 sewing machines rattle away at a factory on the outskirts of Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. Rwanda's clothing spat with the US helps China 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z She kept her nose to the sewing machine when people started asking for more. Aurora woman strives to sew comfortable masks 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z There’s also a fabrication lab, full of 3-D printers, laser cutters and sewing machines. Six ways to get to know D.C.’s beautifully renovated MLK Library — from a distance 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z To earn extra money, she started selling face masks stitched on her sewing machine. Housekeepers Face a Disaster Generations in the Making 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z “We all put our pennies together and bought another sewing machine,” Armstrong said. Mask making project unites close-knit family 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z Her mother, born in Bari, Italy, told stories about arriving in New York at 18 and being able to get only the worst factory jobs, like cleaning sewing machines. The Secret History of America’s Only WWII Refugee Camp 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z In 1846, Elias Howe received a patent for his sewing machine. Today in History 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z She’s even got another sewing machine ready in case her current one dies. North Carolina woman makes thousands of masks in pandemic 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z She was sitting by her sewing machine when she looked out the window and saw a man being chased by a sheriff’s deputy. 'I’m sad, and I’m mad’: Killing of Black cyclist by L.A. deputies sparks outrage, grief 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Pate received a 1959 Singer sewing machine - the same kind her late mother taught her to sew on when Pate was younger. Thread of love runs through each mask sewn for neighbors 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z But inserting flexible electrodes is a much more delicate and challenging task, hence the company’s focus on building a “sewing machine” like robot to do the job. Elon Musk promises demo of a working Neuralink device on Friday 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Journalist Sherif Sonbol was taking pictures of ethnic dancers during an official tour of China’s far western Xinjiang province when he noticed a room full of women being trained to use sewing machines. How China uses Muslim press trips to counter claims of Uighur abuse 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z Mother and daughter worked together for two years, their sewing machines just a few feet apart. Indiana family keeps late woman’s sewing shop dream alive 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z Steele hired about six extra workers to help out, while the Lordans and Huston drove all over New England trying to source enough fabric and extra sewing machines — no small feat during an economic shutdown. Struggling U.S. manufacturers pivot to one product where sales are actually booming: Masks 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Beyond the sewing machine, Pate’s family is involved in each mask that is crafted. Thread of love runs through each mask sewn for neighbors 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z She stopped working as a film editor, bought three sewing machines, hired two tailors and founded her own fashion brand, Rwanda Clothing. 'I started a fashion business from two suitcases' 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z Steamer trunks, antique sewing machines, Persian rugs, old books and silver-plated objects are among the items that may seem rare and costly but typically aren’t, she says. Liz Weston: What to do with your stuff the kids don’t want 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z “If the sewing machine messes up or comes unthreaded, I just want to ask Mom for help.” Indiana family keeps late woman’s sewing shop dream alive 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z There were so many sewers putting in long hours that Longacre said volunteers have kept local sewing machine repair shops busy. Omaha neighbors retire from mask-making effort 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z In Peru, she found jobs selling sewing machines and waitressing, but they paid little. Lives Lost: Young Venezuelan dreamed of better life in Peru 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Jacks said she hadn’t touched a sewing machine before April of this year, but wanted to get involved in helping people access masks during the pandemic. Virginia college town helps make masks for students’ return 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z With a pile of the black fabric next to him, he works the sewing machine so quickly that the fringes flutter. The fashion labels whose clothes are made by prisoners 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z “A single establishment in this city—the Singer Sewing Machine Company—turns out five hundred sewing machines per diem. The works are run night and day.” 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: June 2020 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z It was 106 degrees outside and warm inside, but she wore a cloth face mask as she leaned over a sewing machine, altering a black dress for the only customer who had called that afternoon. This California town declared itself a 'sanctuary city' for business 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z In 1920, Man Ray had wrapped a sewing machine with a blanket, appropriating an everyday object and making it art. Christo, the artist who wrapped the world 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Tall cubicle walls now separate hundreds of sewing machines, meaning workers may be able to hear, but not see or touch, their colleagues. Workers nervously eye return to Lear's coronavirus-hit plant in Mexico 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z He was a whiz with the sewing machine and enjoyed altering dresses, making curtains and designing gifts for family and friends. A dedicated nurse, a party-loving patient transporter: US healthcare workers who died from Covid-19 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z “When you’ve been bent over a sewing machine for 12 hours, a nice order of pad thai is really welcome,” one auntie told me. 'The way we get through this is together': mutual aid under coronavirus | Rebecca Solnit 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Without hesitation, she went to work on her sewing machine to ship out as many masks as she could to Work 'N Gear stores in other states like Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Coronavirus leads Work 'N Gear to donate scrubs, masks to first responders, other essential workers 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z All that was left were a few burned and warped sewing machines that they later salvaged from the wreckage. Fires ravaged their livelihoods, then Covid-19 struck 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Her elaborate sewing machine was specially designed to fit her 27-inch frame. Commonplace photos, tools, documents, other objects tell the story of disability 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z When activated, the switch, which is similar to a pedal of an old-fashioned sewing machine, connects to a machine that emits a cloudlike spray made up of 70 percent alcohol and 30 percent water. Lobby Heroes of the Lockdown 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z This week, the squad is sending a van full of supplies, including masks, materials and three sewing machines, to the Navajo nation, which has been hard hit by the virus. 'The way we get through this is together': mutual aid under coronavirus | Rebecca Solnit 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z People who collect sewing machines often name them after a prior owner, she said. Pandemic, sewing machine show a son his mother’s impact 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z "That was my first time ever using a sewing machine," she says. Protective gear demand 'caught all by surprise' 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z “One of our staff made me this one. We need to find more before we can sell them. But some of the staff has pulled out their sewing machines.” Column: With California reopening, L.A. Arboretum charts a safe path for people and peacocks 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Inside the workroom, there’s a steady hum of sewing machines and other equipment. Virginia company switches to making needed medical supplies 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z In Gaza City, Zahara’s all-male factory floor bustled this week as some workers carefully stitched light-blue masks, while others quickly cut nylon fabrics and used old sewing machines to assemble them into protective wear. In Odd Turn With Israel, Gazans Get Economic Adrenaline Shot from Virus 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Further entries in the Pandemic Objects series will shine a spotlight on toilet paper, streaming services, cardboard packaging, balconies and more, one of the more triumphant stories being the revival of the sewing machine. Museum of Covid-19: the story of the crisis told through everyday objects 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Lockwood brought his sewing machine to his apartment in Spanish Harlem from his design studio in the garment district and is making masks for hospitals. In NYC it’s ‘survival of fittest for fashion brands’ 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z In the fetid urban shantytown of La Saline, I met a tailor whose only possession was an old sewing machine. Perspective | Haiti has a tragic history of disasters. Will covid-19 be next? 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z Even so, inmates are still walking a quarter-mile from their dorms to the prison’s textile plant, where they sit at sewing machines arranged a few feet apart like rows of desks in a schoolroom. ‘A recipe for disaster’: American prison factories becoming incubators for coronavirus 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z But masks are only one element of the personal protective equipment that health care workers need—and they do not require a redesign for sewing machines to manufacture them en masse. Engineers Offer DIY Solutions to Coronavirus Equipment Shortages 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z “Yet the great 19th-century invention of the sewing machine is still a ubiquitous household item.” Museum of Covid-19: the story of the crisis told through everyday objects 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z I have dug out my own ancient sewing machine, and after I’ve oiled it and figured out how to work it again, we are going to sew face masks for health workers. Margaret Atwood’s lockdown diary: life as an eccentric self-isolationist 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z While that work continues, soldiers across the room are laser focused on tiny pins and buzzing sewing machines. Fort Bragg soldiers make masks to fight coronavirus pandemic 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z The three sisters grew up among the hum of sewing machines and mountains of fabric in their mother’s dress shop in Apatzingán in Mexico’s Michoacán state. Three sisters set aside a dressmaking rivalry to kick coronavirus butt 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Parris’s 77-year-old mother, who lives with her family, has long been a seamstress and she used a sewing machine to sew masks together. A West Virginia church spends Easter making face shields using 3-D printers 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z “My fingers are not so fast as they used to be,” she said, “but my sewing machine is.” Black Hills seamstresses mobilize to make masks in outbreak 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, my sister and her sewing machine are hurtling down the highway towards me at the speed of light; well, not exactly, but faster than usual due to the scarcity of cars on the road. Margaret Atwood’s lockdown diary: life as an eccentric self-isolationist 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z The factory floor pulsates with the thrum of sewing machines and is littered with piles of the mesh, string and wire that make up the masks. The Kenyan factory that transformed into a surgical mask assembly line overnight 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z The sisters lose themselves in the rhythmic clatter of the sewing machine mixed with whatever Spanish-language crooner happens to be emanating from their radio. Three sisters set aside a dressmaking rivalry to kick coronavirus butt 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z The families produced the PPE inside a local makerspace, a community-operated space that houses 3-D printers, laser cutters, sewing machines and vinyl cutters, many of which were donated by church members. A West Virginia church spends Easter making face shields using 3-D printers 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z While I can sew a reasonable seam by hand — in fact, I was very into crewel and embroidery once upon a time — I don’t have a sewing machine. The Verge’s best and worst coronavirus masks 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z After the cloth is ironed, it's taken back to a sewing machine where elastic is sewn on to the masks. California inmates make face masks to distribute in hopes to curb coronavirus spread 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z "Catty loves it, he won't leave me alone and plonks his butt on my book, or laptop, sewing machine or phone," she says. 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