I’ve been sewing off and on since I was a kid, and I really started to get into it about ten years ago. Even though I technically outgrew my little 3/4 size domestic machine pretty quickly, I kept ...
Well, it’s done. After weeks of trawling Craigslist, an hour-long phone call with an intelligent stranger about a different machine that wasn’t going suit my needs, and a two-week delay while the ...
Pine Bluff Arsenal’s Directorate of Chemical and Biological Defense Operations, Textiles and Protective Clothing production, ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City nonprofit is helping revitalize the art of sewing by training people to become industrial sewing machine operators. Through a partnership with both the U.S. and ...
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The pleasant hum of a sewing machine fills a busy work space in Johnston Square, just off the corner of Greenmount Avenue and Preston Street. It’s an industrial sound that once reverberated all over ...
FALL RIVER — There aren’t many mortals who still do what John Tallmadge has been doing for more than four decades. “Everybody’s either dead or retired,” he said. Tallmadge, 66, was referring to the ...