To take a simple example, a blanket may be duplicated by anyone with sewing skills.
She was sewing zippers into blue jeans when the electricity failed in Rana Plaza.
But moving from sewing clothes to building phone networks requires more than nimbler hands.
And thanks to ever-faster automated sewing, needle metallurgy is still a hot topic in engineering journals.
The metal workshops include repair units for sewing machines and bicycles, household appli-ances and electronic equipment.
Still women run schools, sometimes going underground, claiming they are offering only sewing lessons.
We learned the mechanics of the sewing machine, how to thread it and away we went.
There is a wheelchair repair unit, a sewing unit, a pottery and crafts unit.
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And my mom would go to Woolworth's and she would inevitably go to the sewing department.
She took in sewing, learned typing, married young, but also got involved in black politics.
This is a surmountable obstacle: Cutting and sewing are the last steps in the apparel-manufacturing process.
North Korean traders returning from China stock up on clothes, secondhand sewing machines and consumer goods.
It also holds a work table by an Amish carpenter, a sewing machine and racks of fabrics.
There is an installation and sculpture room, as well as individual spaces for sewing, embroidery and drawing.
Asher Levine has been sewing since he was 10-years-old, when his mother enrolled him in a sewing class.
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Shirley's in the kitchen wearing a bathrobe, huddled over a sewing machine, repairing the seam of a dress.
Baker shows me the sewing floor - there are four women sitting in front of specialized sewing machine.
Her parents did odd jobs her father did photography part time, her mother did odd jobs sewing for people.
Meanwhile, occupations like hand sewing, fabric mending and textile knitting have also seen sharp declines in recent years.
There are vast amounts of food staples, tea, sugar, tires, car batteries and sewing machines in the warehouses.
Inside the brightly lit offices, you'll find not rows of sewing machines but banks of shiny desktop computers.
When a promised sewing machine arrives, his wife and daughter hope to supplement the family's income as seamstresses.
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The poor are also victims of inefficiency - they use inefficient sewing machines, bangle making machines and power looms.
The floods, however, damaged their home and washed away their livelihood two buffaloes, one calf, her sewing machine, and furniture.
Mail sorters, processors and machine operators will shrink by 68, 900, and there will be 42, 100 fewer sewing machine operators.
He took jobs sewing textiles and even worked for room and board so he could learn the jewelry-making trade.
Yet they believe something like reading or sewing is a much better activity?
In taking the case, the Supreme Court appeared to be sewing up a growing rift at the appeals level.
Enter Compaq Computer, then a small Texas maker of sewing- machine-size portable computers.
While mail sorters and carpenters are male-dominated, for example, office workers and sewing machine operators are female-dominated occupations.
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