The metal workshops include repair units for sewing machines and bicycles, household appli-ances and electronic equipment.
North Korean traders returning from China stock up on clothes, secondhand sewing machines and consumer goods.
There are vast amounts of food staples, tea, sugar, tires, car batteries and sewing machines in the warehouses.
Inside the brightly lit offices, you'll find not rows of sewing machines but banks of shiny desktop computers.
The poor are also victims of inefficiency - they use inefficient sewing machines, bangle making machines and power looms.
Brother is a leading global manufacturer of laser, label and multi-function printers, as well as fax machines and sewing machines.
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The fields with the biggest job drops, perhaps not surprisingly: farmers and ranchers, sewing machines operators, and office order clerks.
Mr. Park said he has been thinking about ways to bring sewing machines into the high-tech world for 30 years.
Some clothing makers have started to use sewing machines and computer systems that track apparel as it is being made.
The newfound popularity of craft items, sewing machines, canning kits, home appliances and home entertainment items all speak to this trend.
On this warm day, the rattle of Tehran's chaotic traffic comes in through the open window of a small room crowded with sewing machines.
Cooks and seamstresses in tiny dress shops now have laptops alongside their pans and old sewing machines allowing them to day trade at work.
At Myint Soe's garment factory on the outskirts of Rangoon, rows of women hunch over sewing machines and irons under neon lights, pressing, folding, hemming, in stifling heat.
NGOs have followed this route, and now more than 6m poor people (almost all women) have obtained small loans for shops, sewing machines, chicken farming and the like.
In June, employees at a garment factory in Takhmau district north of Phnom Penh complained of receiving electric shocks from their sewing machines but were ordered to keep working.
She wants to expand, by adding a storefront to the side of her house and hiring two young women to make clothes on the two sewing machines she owns.
But it has only been in the past two years or so that the combination of computing and networking technologies became inexpensive enough to be cost-effective on industrial sewing machines.
Imagine an order for 400, 000 pieces of one shirt style is spread over a four-line (meaning four rows of sewing machines, each row with 50 workers) factory of 1, 600 square meters.
Led by Jennifer Rothwell and Eoin McDonnell, the collective makes the most of its space at 51 South William Street, where work is created at jeweller's benches and sewing machines on-site.
Like the Huguenots and Jews, the Bangladeshis started work mainly in textiles at first in the rug trade, later in leather and suede and sewing machines once again hummed in the Spitalfields sweatshops.
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Ms. Blair spends months constructing the pieces in the workroom of her home in Louisville, a tidy space stocked with cutting tables, sewing machines and drawers of supplies stretching to the ceiling.
Four tiny shops were combined into one to create the knickknack-crammed Dawno Temu Na Kazimierzu, brimming with mannequins, brass chandeliers, rocking horses and tables fashioned out of sewing machines and workbenches.
The price of steel in particular fell by 80 percent between 1880 and 1900, with resulting knock-on effects in the prices of everything from pots and pans through sewing machines to printing presses.
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The independently owned hotel with 197 rooms describes its style as "industrial chic" with furnishings related to its history, such as desks inspired by vintage sewing machines and coffee tables that resemble old factory carts.
Those who keep their equipment might fare worse: many of the 50 demobilised soldiers in Mr Pieng's district plan to set up tailoring or taxi businesses as soon as their sewing machines or motorbikes arrive.
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For shoppers, it's an adventure: Among the 15, 000 to 20, 000 items stocked by the average store, you might find Singer sewing machines and Harry Potter T shirts one week, slot machines and wedding gowns the next.
At Century's Standard Textile factory, a partnership with the Israeli textile company Delta Galil, 300 women sit at industrial sewing machines making 14, 000 panties and undershirts a day for major U.S. brands, including Victoria's Secret and J.
In one part of the market where the sound of sewing machines was louder than the noise of traffic, a young tailor explained before the ceasefire announcement how it was hard to work in fear and uncertainty.
In 1977, aged 15, he dropped out of school to work full-time on the four sewing machines he had bought with his savings. (He still speaks only Arabic.) By the time Benetton came to Syria to scout for a franchisee in the mid-1990s, Mr Samha owned a factory exporting clothes to Europe.
Mr. TIM WATERS (Director of Rapid Response, United Steelworkers of America) Right now we're in a clothing factory with, what I'm just guessing looking out on this one floor, hundreds and hundreds of sewing machines, and people sitting at benches with no backs on them, just bent over, sewing clothes for the U.S. market.
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