But the Osborne One was about the size of a sewing machine and weighed twenty-four pounds.

VOA: special.2011.02.15

With a sixty-five dollar loan, she began a sewing business and began to earn money.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

She worked sewing clothes from the nineteen thirties until nineteen fifty-five.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

The delicious singing of the mother or of the young wife at work or of the girl sewing or washing Each singing what belongs to him or her, and to none else;

VOA: special.2009.04.12

The sewing machines are quiet now, but soon the owners hope, 3,000 pairs of boots a day will be produced here.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

Phyu Phyu Aye,a Burmese refugee who's lived in the United States for a decade,teaches sewing, but also advises her students on many cultural issues.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

In the early years of communist rule in China, a sewing machine was one of the so-called big items that indicated a high living standard.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

Working at her sewing machine, Jia says there is nothing left she wants to buy.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28