Hudson, Ohio, based Jo-Ann Stores is a national hobby and craft retailer that sells fabrics, yarns, knitting and sewing supplies and accessories through 750 retail stores and online.

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"Some of them couldn't even walk properly and if they did something in their free time they would be knitting or sewing and sitting all the time...here they run, shout, fight with you...it keeps them young, " she said.

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Meanwhile, occupations like hand sewing, fabric mending and textile knitting have also seen sharp declines in recent years.

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The disappearing jobs list also reflects the continuing long-term decline of no- and low-skilled manufacturing jobs in the U.S.--sewing machine operators, engine assemblers, machine tool setters, home appliance repairers and textile knitting machine operators.

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