I fell into sewing leather at 15 when home economics class only had an industrial machine left as the girls grabbed the light machines to work on. I had been sewing with my mom, grandma and aunt ...

A small female-led family firm has said it is "surreal" to have grown into industry leaders in sewing work for commercial and ...

As the leader of the sewing machine industry, the Singer Company introduced the first practical sewing machine powered by an ...

He repaired industrial sewing machines and manufactured machine parts for local use. When Yasui’s sons inherited his company, they changed the name to Yasui Brothers’ Sewing Machine Company, ...

I have been doing Auto Upholstery on my own since 1980. Being self-taught from an early age. I have always been guarded to ...

Pacheco, 48, says he grew up in Fall River and has been doing commercial sewing machine repair and service work his entire adult life since graduating Durfee High School, ...

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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 ...

But with the rise of industrial sewing machines and mass-produced fabrics, the clothing industry was transformed. By the late 1860s, ready-to-wear clothing became a booming industry, especially in ...

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 ...