Students with outstanding performance and others who cannot afford their own sewing machines are awarded donated sewing machines at successful completion of the course.

In this time, she will be able to go to the sewing shop, where we purchased an industrial sewing machine for her and made her a partner in the shop.

As a result, officials in Jiangsu are no longer content with sewing clothing.

Only recently have boys in junior secondary schools begun learning basic sewing skills.

There are currently 71 special schools where women can learn sewing, knitting and basketwork.

These were often donations of cows, chickens, agricultural machines and tools, sewing and knitting machines, as well as courses from different areas.

The Department of Women's Affairs provided training in traditional women's work such as sewing, cooking, home making, building of stoves until 1996.

Other museums include the Swiss Museum of Marionnettes, the Swiss Sewing Machine Museum, the Gutenberg Museum, the Bible and Orient Museum and a beer museum.

The projects of training that have been especially intended for women, often conducted by independent NGOs, with international donor help, include, among other ones, typewriting, knitting, and sewing courses.

Whilst pastors and priests spread and taught God's words, wives of missionaries and planters both contributed to the teachings of domesticity, of healthy homes and families where cooking, cleaning and sewing were taught.

Then the twain ate thereof so there became disclosed to them their shame , and they began sewing upon them selves some of the leaves of the Garden , so Adam disobeyed his Lord , and erred ,

Then the twain ate thereof so there became disclosed to them their shame , and they began sewing upon them selves some of the leaves of the Garden , so Adam disobeyed his Lord , and erred ,

She claimed to have won the sewing championship at the 1931 State Fair of Texas in Dallas, but in reality won the South Texas State Fair in Beaumont, embellishing the story many years later in 1953.

He uses scale to more and more spectacular effect, whether on the roof of a temple in Singapore, or in his increasingly ambitious installation work, here with 192 functioning sewing machines, fabricating the flags of every member of the United Nations.

She had started her business squatting in an abandoned garage, sewing sheets and pillow cases she would take to markets all around the city so that she could support the 12 or 13 family members who were counting on her for survival.

Japan is already focusing on giving women in the region the skills they need to earn a living. In Mindanao, where Japan built a vocational training center for women, the sounds of gunshots and angry cries have been replaced by the whir of sewing machines.

Money collected funds small projects for Iraqi families here, especially for women, and goes towards purchasing sewing machines, ovens for baking bread, equipment for a home based beauty salon, or items to enable them to make pickles and other food products, which they can sell and make a small income which will enable their families to live above the poverty line while they are abroad.