Visiting Lisa Sun’s factory on West 39th Street feels like going back to the 1960s. It’s a wide open space with mostly women sitting at sewing machines in the front. In the back, workers operate big ...

Guest Maria King demonstrates the ins and outs of creating practical projects with a straight stitch All garments, no matter how difficult, start with a straight stitch. There are a few methods we can ...

There seems no end to the lessons a child or teen can pick up by learning to sew. Math, engineering, recycling? It’s all tied in when you create a three-dimensional garment out of a two-dimensional ...

While residential development on the far West Side has generated significant buzz thanks to the planned redevelopment of the Hudson Yards, a lower-profile stretch of land just to the east appears to ...

BANGKOK — It should have been a extraordinary scene: more than 100 factory hands fainting in unison as if possessed by spirits. But in Cambodian garment factories, which play in major role in ...

ISLAMABAD: In an effort to boost value addition in the garment sector, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government has revived the project of establishing 1,000 industrial stitching units, which ...

Savorn Moeung, a literacy class teacher, sits next to the whiteboard of her classroom at Top Summit Garment, a bustling garment factory nestled in the industrial region of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Here, ...

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