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  2. Sewing - Wikipedia

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    Sewing birds or sewing clamps were used as a third hand and were popular gifts for seamstresses in the 19th century. [10] [11] A sewing bird or sewing clamp provides a "third hand" to hold fabric taut. Watercolor by Frank McEntee, National Gallery of Art, Index of American Design. Decorative embroidery was valued in many cultures worldwide.

  3. History of sewing patterns - Wikipedia

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    A sewing pattern is the template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto woven or knitted fabrics before being cut out and assembled. Patterns are usually made of paper , and are sometimes made of sturdier materials like paperboard or cardboard if they need to be more robust to withstand repeated use.

  4. Category:Sewing - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 4 September 2024, at 23:57 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  5. Elias Howe - Wikipedia

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    Elias Howe Jr. was born on July 9, 1819, to Dr. Elias Howe Sr (1792–1867) and Polly (Bemis) Howe (1791–1871) in Spencer, Massachusetts.Howe spent his childhood and early adult years in Massachusetts, where he apprenticed in a textile factory in Lowell beginning in 1835.

  6. Amazon Fire - Wikipedia

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    Kindle Fire showing components, back cover removed. The Amazon Fire, formerly called the Kindle Fire, is a line of tablet computers developed by Amazon.Built with Quanta Computer, the Kindle Fire was first released in November 2011, featuring a color 7-inch multi-touch display with IPS technology and running on Fire OS, an Android-based operating system.

  7. History of quilting - Wikipedia

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    Whole-cloth quilt, 18th century, Netherlands.Textile made in India. In Europe, quilting appears to have been introduced by Crusaders in the 12th century (Colby 1971) in the form of the aketon or gambeson, a quilted garment worn under armour which later developed into the doublet, which remained an essential part of fashionable men's clothing for 300 years until the early 1600s.

  8. Yarn - Wikipedia

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    Yarn is a long continuous length of interlocked fibres, used in sewing, crocheting, knitting, weaving, embroidery, ropemaking, and the production of textiles. [1] Thread is a type of yarn intended for sewing by hand or machine. Modern manufactured sewing threads may be finished with wax or other lubricants to withstand the stresses involved in ...

  9. Fritz Gegauf - Wikipedia

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    Fritz Gegauf (1893-1980) was a Swiss inventor and founder of the Bernina International, an international manufacturer of sewing and embroidery systems. He was the son of Karl Friedrich Gegauf (1860-1926), inventor of the hemstitch sewing machine.