Sumi, a 25-year-old worker who goes by one name, said she was sewing jeans on the fifth floor with at least 400 others when the building fell.
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.
According to CNN, many of the women in a sewing cooperative on the Filipino Island of Mindanao were fed up with not being able to deliver their products because of the violence that had closed down a main road between two villages.
This past weekend, I saw a story with a photo of an elderly woman sitting at a sewing machine working on prom dresses and the article went on to say that she has to work in order to supplement her Social Security.
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.
Aleesuk is busily sewing a snow valence on the tent and Ozzie just found some divers gloves for my survival suit.
Mr. BAKER: This operator, she has to turn the sock wrong side out, put it on the sewing machine, comes through, turns it back.
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.
She began working with beads and sewing as a child on the La Jolla Luiseno Reservation in California, and at 22, became the youngest artist to earn best in show at New Mexico's Santa Fe Market, the largest crafts fair in Indian Country.
Captain Ahmed is sewing up the wide gash on the top of her foot as a large crowd looks on.
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.
Fashion items for the retail shops in the UK. Now I though that all of that was done in China, India, Bangladesh and so on, as sewing garments really is a high labourt input production line.
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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.
North Korean traders returning from China stock up on clothes, secondhand sewing machines and consumer goods.
Washington (CNN) -- The FBI says it has launched an investigation into the discovery of sewing needles in four turkey sandwiches on separate Delta Air Lines flights from Amsterdam to the United States.
But Tockey has had to cut back on her knitting and sewing supplies activities that she says are not only pleasurable, but keep her from being depressed to afford her drugs.
Shin learned in late December that on Jan. 2, his crew of sewing-machine repairmen and some of the seamstresses would be escorted to a mountain ridge on the eastern edge of the camp.
In 1870, Mary Walker used her savings from years of sewing and caregiving to purchase a home near Harvard on Brattle Street.
The girls can finish high school on site, take computer classes or learn vocational skills like sewing or jewelry-making.
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.
Merina Khatun, 21, was a sewing operator at a garment factory inside the eight-floor building which collapsed on the outskirts of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, on Wednesday.
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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Mobile financial services also allow a talented village seamstress to obtain a microfinance loan, enabling her to purchase another sewing machine, employ other women in her village, and provide for her family instead of relying on aid or depriving her children of basic education.
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With two piston-like windows on its eastern flank, this building looks a lot like a giant garment worker's sewing machine -- an appropriate image for a company such as Wacoal.
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