Summary
Generally speaking, these days, women who sew are engaged in making clothing, doing embroidery, quilting or creating works of art from cloth. We stitch because it pleases us, to express our creativity or satisfy the artistic impulses within us.
But there are other chapters in the story of women, and men, who sew; chapters that are tightly laced into the historical fabric of working-class Maine. I speak of those hardworking breadwinners who labored in shoe factories, spinning mills and woolen mills that once were part of the vast system of goods-producing businesses on which Maine was built.See the full content of this document
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Tradition of Sewing has Deep Roots in Maine
Many Mainers don't need to part the leaves of the family tree too deeply to discover a grandparent who knew how to hand-sew shoes or who worked on the production line sewing shirts.
My sons' grandfather Kelsey ...See the full content of this document
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