Many books that are sold as hardcover are actually of this type.

Actress Zhou Xun starred in Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress and the moving Chinese movie Suzhou River.

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.

Production, subdivided into carpentries, some of which produce coffins sold at affordable prices, tailor shops, bakeries pastries, lotteries

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

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 In Mindanao, where Japan built a vocational training center for women, the sounds of gunshots and angry cries have been replaced by the whir of sewing machines.

But what this lets you do is gives you that all important traction, and counter traction, so that you can dissect, so that you can sew, so that you can do all the things that you need to do, all the surgical tasks.

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.