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  2. List of sewing stitches - Wikipedia

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    Slip stitch – form of blind stitch for fastening two pieces of fabric together from the right side without the thread showing; Stoating – used to join two pieces of woven material, such that the resulting stitches are not visible from the right side of the cloth; Straight stitch – the basic stitch in hand-sewing and embroidery

  3. Overlock - Wikipedia

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    The purl stitch. An overlock is a kind of stitch that sews over the edge of one or two pieces of cloth for edging, hemming, or seaming.Usually an overlock sewing machine will cut the edges of the cloth as they are fed through (such machines being called sergers in North America), though some are made without cutters.

  4. Leader Sewing Machine - Wikipedia

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    The Leader Sewing Machine Company produced sewing machines from 1870 to 1899 or thereabout. [1]The base of operations shows as 479 to 497 Case Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio [2] and 1115 Olive Street, St Louis, Montana USA on some 1884 and other Victorian trade cards and 1885 envelopes traded on eBay.

  5. Janome - Wikipedia

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    The name "Janome" (蛇の目) literally means "snake's eye." It was taken from the appearance of the bobbin design at the time of brand establishment in 1935, when the newer, round bobbin system was starting to replace the traditional long shuttle. As the new round bobbin looked like a snake's eye, Janome was chosen as the company's name. [3]

  6. Stitching awl - Wikipedia

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    It is a thin, tapered metal shaft, coming to a sharp point, either straight or slightly bent. These shafts are often in the form of interchangeable needles. They usually have an eye piercing at the pointed end to aid in drawing thread through holes for the purpose of manual lockstitch sewing, in which case it is also called a sewing awl ...

  7. List of sewing machine brands - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. Brother Industries - Wikipedia

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    Brother diversified into manufacturing printers, label printers, MFCs, garment printers, music sequencers, manufacturing/machine tools, and Joysound karaokes in the 1960s. Brother Industries, for an unknown period of time, produced many different word processor machines , [ 19 ] but there is hardly any information backed up online regarding ...

  9. Clothkits - Wikipedia

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    2007-08 Clothkits baby dress, red. Clothkits is an English clothing and craft company, based in Chichester, West Sussex who sell kit clothing, dressmaking kits, haberdashery, sewing machines and all manner of other sewing supplies.