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unusual facts about Sewing


Tailored fiber placement

The fibrous material is fixed with an upper and lower stitching thread on a base material.


Alan Wilson

Allen B. Wilson (1824–1888), American inventor of the sewing machine shuttle

Bisnis Indonesia

Bisnis Indonesia opened its first office in an ex Singer's sewing machine service center at Jalan Kramat V/8, Central Jakarta.

Bridget Cleary

She obtained a Singer sewing machine, state of the art at the time, and was variously described as a dressmaker and a milliner.

Brother Industries

In 1968 the company moved its UK headquarters to Audenshaw, Manchester, after acquiring the Jones Sewing Machine Company, a long established British sewing machine maker.

Conclavist

For example, after the papal conclave, 1903, before the election of Giuseppe Sarto as Pope Pius X was announced, several conclavists apparently attempted to signal his election from the window by "imitating the sewing motions of a tailor, sarto in Italian".

Dante Simpson

DSA Media’s client experience has included programs for Mercedes Benz, The Maloof Family (owners of Sacramento Kings/The Palms Las Vegas), Sprite, Anheuser-Busch, New York Islanders, Brothers Sewing Machines, Jiffy Lube, IHOP, Quiznos, GQ Magazine, and others.

Duhamel, Quebec

Starting in 1925, the Singer Company, best known for its sewing machines, built a railway through Duhamel linking Thurso to Lake Montjoie (in Lac-Ernest unorganized territory).

Duncan Pryde

Pryde didn't last long in the Merchant Navy resigning due to an eye industry and went to work for Singer Corporation in a plant manufacturing sewing machines.

Forget Us Not

Vera Young, a Polish Catholic teen is separated from the rest of her family and sent to a concentration camp, where she survives each brutal day by sewing uniforms for her Nazi captors before being sent on a 900 mile death march.

Gildan Activewear

Gildan opened its first off-shore sewing facility in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, in 1997.

Golden Girl

She had adapted her name slightly to Betsy Ross — the name of the U.S. colonial-era woman to whom legend ascribes sewing the first American flag — by the time that Captain America's sidekick, the second Bucky (Fred Davis) was shot and wounded.

Golden Needle Sewing School

Herat may have been the most oppressed area under the Taliban, according to Christina Lamb, author of The Sewing Circles of Herat, because it was a cultured city and mostly Shi'a, both of which the Taliban opposed.

Gordon McKay

He met Lyman Reed Blake, who had applied for, and received, a patent from the United States government for his sewing machine for helping attach the soles of shoes to the upper of the shoe.

Hermann-Grima House

Mr. Grima sponsored a St. Louis Cathedral sewing group and their youngest daughter sang in the choirs at St. Louis Cathedral and St. Augustine Church.

High-temperature sewing threads

Kevlar-coated stainless steel sewing threads have a high-temperature and flame-resistant steel core combined with Kevlar coating designed to facilitate easier machine sewing.

History of Bridgeport, Connecticut

Famous factories included Wheeler & Wilson, which produced sewing machines and exported them throughout the world, Remington UMC, Bridgeport Brass, General Electric Company, American Graphophone Company (Columbia Records), Warner Brothers Corset Company (Warnaco) and the Locomobile Company of America, builder of one of the premier automobiles in the early years of the century.

I. M. Singer

Isaac Singer (1811–1875), inventor of the Singer sewing machine

Kansas, Oklahoma

Legend has it that a man of small stature who came to nearby Siloam Springs, Arkansas, by train from Kansas City, Kansas, rented a hack and stocked it with light household goods, pots and pans, bolts of cloth, sewing machine parts and needles, etc.

Lac-Ernest, Quebec

In the early 1920s, the Singer Company, manufacturer best known for its sewing machines, began logging the area.

Lizzie Black Kander

Because Kander refused to accept social reform as essentially Christian, she joined the Milwaukee Chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) which was established to provide sewing, cooking and English classes to Russian immigrants.

Machine embroidery

Brother Industries entered the embroidery industry after several computerized embroidery companies contracted it to provide sewing heads.

Matsumoku

Shortly after the World War II (1939-1945), the Singer Corporation established the Singer Sewing Machine Company, Japan, and set up production facilities in Nagoya.

Merrow Sewing Machine Company

2004: Charlie Merrow and Owen Merrow great grandsons of Lena Bryant (and great nephews to Joseph B. Merrow) with their father Robert Merrow, organize a buyout of the Merrow Machine Company and move its headquarters to Wareham, Massachusetts, changing its name to The Merrow Sewing Machine Company.

Molly Weir

With Helena Gloag she played the Kerr sisters, the sewing mistresses of Marcia Blaine School for Girls.

Moonee Ponds, Victoria

Moonee Ponds Central Shopping Centre has many stores including Kmart, Aldi, The Coffee Club, Man to Man, Dick Smith Electronics, EB Games and Smiggle, Moonee Ponds Sewing

Pamela Holm

Her pre-literary résumé includes painting needlepoint patterns, installing neon signage, designing luggage, enlarging photos from weapons tests sites, decorating sets for rap videos, and sewing hats for the Pillsbury Doughboy.

Pincushion

A pincushion (or pin cushion) is a small cushion, typically 3–5 cm across, which is used in sewing to store pins or needles with their heads protruding so as to take hold of them easily, collect them, and keep them organized.

Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand

It showed composer Frédéric Chopin (1810–49) playing piano while writer George Sand (1804–76) sits to his right, listening and sewing (a favorite activity of hers).

Red Clydeside

The 11,000 workers at the largest factory of Singer sewing machines factory, in Clydebank, went on strike in March–April 1911, ceasing to work in solidarity of 12 female colleagues protesting against work process reorganisation.

Reginald Lewis

Lewis had learned from a Fortune magazine article that the Esmark holding company, which had recently purchased Norton Simon, planned to divest from the McCall Pattern Company, a maker of home sewing patterns founded in 1870.

Rotary hook

Mr. Howe is mentioned due to the patent thicket that threatened to put the smaller sewing machine companies out of business.

Sewing circle

It has been speculated that the phrase "chew the rag", is related to gossiping while working in a sewing circle.

Sewing with Nancy

Sewing with Nancy is an American television show about sewing, hosted by Nancy Zieman.

Sir John Barran, 1st Baronet

By 1851 he had moved to Briggate and in 1856 he had a factory with 20-30 sewing machines.

Southwood, Calgary

The community has three gasoline filling stations (with attached convenience stores), a Tim Hortons, Humpty's restaurant, several fast food outlets, two liquor stores, a Bentley's Pub, a branch of the Bank of Montreal, two dental offices, a Box brand grocery store, Planet Organic Market, Fabricland (Fabric and sewing supplies), Southwood Automotive car repair, a car wash and a dog wash.

Steckborn

Fritz Gegauf, inventor of the sewing machine and founder of Bernina

Sudirman

During his tenure as sub-district head, Cokrosunaryo had not accumulated much wealth, and in Cilacap he became a distributor of Singer sewing machines.

Tacony Corporation

In 2003, Tacony Corporation acquired Nancy's Notions, a sewing accessories company founded by TV Host Nancy Zieman.

Tailored fiber placement

Tailored fiber placement or TFP is a textile manufacturing technique based on the principle of sewing for a continuous placement of fibrous material for composite components.

The Incredible Shrinking Man

Little Archie #34, "The Incredible Cat-Caper" (1965) by Bob Bolling was an homage to The Incredible Shrinking Man, with Little Archie shrinking and fending off a cat with a sewing needle.

Tonia Todman

She is also seen in television advertisements, most recently for Janome sewing machines.

UAB Lelija

Main enterprise is located in Paneriai (Vilnius), the capital of Lithuania, where are samples making, CAD (designing), CAM (cutting) departments and nine specialized sewing workshops.


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