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After the war Sansom became a printer, a journalist, an editor (of Sewing Machine Times and the Loading Machine Times), and a comic-strip artist. As a comic-strip artist he embraced surrealism. He was a charismatic orator at Speakers' Corner, Hyde Park, and elsewhere in the 1950s and 1960s. [1]
sewing Sewing is an ancient craft involving the stitching of cloth, leather, animal skins, furs, or other materials, using needle and thread. Its use is nearly universal among human populations and dates back to Paleolithic times (30,000 BC). Sewing predates the weaving of cloth. sewing circle
Opening in August 2020, Swanson’s Fabrics has become both a purveyor of unused secondhand fabrics and a community learning center.
Bar tacks may be sewn by hand, using whip stitches, or by machine, using zigzag stitches. [1] The process for sewing a bar tack is essentially to sew several long, narrowly-spaced stitches along the line of the bar that will be formed, followed by short stitches made perpendicular to the long stitches, through the fabric and over the bar. [ 4 ]
While most home sewing machines can be used to quilt layers together, having a wide throat (the space to the right of the needle mechanism) is useful to manipulate a bulky quilt through the machine when the throat is both high and long. [citation needed] Fabric markers can be used to mark where cuts should be made in the fabric. Marks from ...
A rare Gem-brand sewing machine produced by the White Sewing Machine Company, circa 1887. A sewing machine is a machine used to stitch fabric and other materials together with thread. [1] Sewing machines were invented during the first Industrial Revolution to decrease the amount of manual sewing work performed in clothing companies. [2]
The White Family Rotary or White FR, later White Rotary or White Rotary Electric, was the first rotary hook sewing machine produced by the White Sewing Machine Company, introduced circa 1900. [1] It joined the successful White Vibrating Shuttle on White's expanding product line and eventually eclipsed it. It was originally sold as a treadle ...
A buttonholer is an attachment for a sewing machine which automates the side-to-side and forwards-and-backwards motions involved in sewing a buttonhole. Most modern sewing machines have this function built in, but many older machines do not, and straight stitch machines cannot sew a zigzag stitch with which buttonholes are constructed.