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...The detail (or layer height) can be brought down as low as 0.1mm, and we marvelled at the speed, detail and precision....
...Adam Opel started to manufacture sewing machines here in 1862, and the first motor vehicle was built in 1899 GPS track On the way out of the city, this route uses the most straightforward and popular arterial...
...That money could be used for potentially life-changing investments in something as simple as a sewing machine with which to start a modest garment trade....
...Witness the Chanel videos of “les petites mains” sewing couture, just as they have for 200 years. Machine-made clothes cannot partake in that romance, but direct-to-consumer likes transparency....
...In the holidays I would go in and help out, packing boxes and learning how to machine in the sewing sample room. When you had made your first £1m did you want to slow down?...
...It attracted the likes of GTE and Singer Sewing Machines, among others....
...In the ones I was allowed into, there were workers at sewing machines listening to the radio, big ironing boards, and tables where people folded and packed clothes....
...I don’t need to show a man on a sewing machine making a bag,” he says. “It’s about, how do you invest in modernity? And craft is modern.”...
...He produces in small batches and sells online (from $250 a pair) with minimal overheads bar his vintage sewing machines and denim imported from Japan. Whall is not alone in this sector....
...There was a clothes shop on the main street and I went in there with Mum when I was nine or 10 and she went in to look at cloth to make into something on her sewing machine, something for her to wear, and...
...It’s very exciting doing business in Russia.”...
...The streets also teem with artisans: lines of men at sewing machines; cobblers seated at their lasts; watch repairers hunched over magnifying glasses out in the sunshine....
...“If you look at communities that have received micro-financing, the first thing a large percentage of them do is buy a sewing machine and a piece of fabric.”...
...“I’m not counting those who are doing made-to-measure with a lot of machine sewing,” he says, “but proper hand-tailors....
...In the late 1970s, Mr Wittenstein switched the company’s focus to engineering after its initial range of products – sewing machines for gloves – fell out of fashion....
...“Someone was crazy enough to buy the business even though there was really nothing to sell except an ancient sewing machine, but they actually gave me money for it.”...
...Now the sewing machines are very much a part of it – everyone who works here knows how to use them and we employ two seamstresses who sew the seams up after the sail has been made....
...– as when you inject a throw-away conversation-filler such as, “What’s that gigantic white rocking horse doing in the middle of your studio?”...
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