What’s New in Sewing

What’s new in sewing? Lots. Here are two newly-published gobs of research info. Parameters of the Bobbin “Influence of the parameters of the bobbin on the friction between the unwinding thread and the plastic sticks of the rubber bushing in the sewing machine,” M.A. Mansurova; Z.S. Vafaeva; J.B. Matyaqubova, Proceedings of the III International Conference […]

“Intellectual Sewing”: Keeping Proust in Stitches

A new academic sub-discipline is born: “Sewing Proust: Patchwork as Critical Practice,” Rhiannon Williams [pictured here], Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, Volume 1, Number 1, November 2013 , pp. 43-56. (Thanks to investigator Neil Martin for bringing this to our attention.) The author, at the University of Derby, explains: “I describe my own […]

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