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Mrs. Ashley Broom
English IV
14 November 2014
Sewing
“The Royal Family doesn 't go out shopping for their uniforms: they 've got some guy sewing on all the ornaments in-house” (London). Sewing is one of the oldest professions in the world, it is defined as the act to secure or enclose by stitches. About 60,000 years ago, people encircled leather, fur, and other material around themselves as a source for clothing, the process of sewing didn’t exist at all. They soon began to link their clothes with strings and leather cords (historyforkids.org).
Around 45,000BC, people living in cold regions, wanted warmer and stronger clothes. So they began to use sharp pointy sticks tools called awls to make holes in their outfits so they could run the strings through the clothes instead of just around them. They used the awls to poke the end of the string through the holes, too. People continued to do it this way until the discoveries of tools such as needles and knives. Sewing is a process that depends on a lot of tools, however the most important tool that has been used and is still being used now is the needle.
Needles are the basic elements of sewing, the first needle was made of animal bones. The extending of clothing caused an expansion in the making of needle, people started creating needles out of steel wire, and using techniques to sharpen the end of each needle. This amazing tool can be used by hand or machine. Also it helped people with applying buttons and small needlework that beheld to make clothing fit more properly (sewingmantra.com). Needles played an important role throughout history and it had a big impact not just in the job of sewing, but it took place in a lot of different activities too.
Sewing machine took the dynamic simple process of sewing to the next level by creating building manufacture of products that would play a huge part in industries worldwide. Walter Hunt built the first eye pointed needle sewing machine, which was
Mrs. Ashley Broom
English IV
14 November 2014
Sewing
“The Royal Family doesn 't go out shopping for their uniforms: they 've got some guy sewing on all the ornaments in-house” (London). Sewing is one of the oldest professions in the world, it is defined as the act to secure or enclose by stitches. About 60,000 years ago, people encircled leather, fur, and other material around themselves as a source for clothing, the process of sewing didn’t exist at all. They soon began to link their clothes with strings and leather cords (historyforkids.org).
Around 45,000BC, people living in cold regions, wanted warmer and stronger clothes. So they began to use sharp pointy sticks tools called awls to make holes in their outfits so they could run the strings through the clothes instead of just around them. They used the awls to poke the end of the string through the holes, too. People continued to do it this way until the discoveries of tools such as needles and knives. Sewing is a process that depends on a lot of tools, however the most important tool that has been used and is still being used now is the needle.
Needles are the basic elements of sewing, the first needle was made of animal bones. The extending of clothing caused an expansion in the making of needle, people started creating needles out of steel wire, and using techniques to sharpen the end of each needle. This amazing tool can be used by hand or machine. Also it helped people with applying buttons and small needlework that beheld to make clothing fit more properly (sewingmantra.com). Needles played an important role throughout history and it had a big impact not just in the job of sewing, but it took place in a lot of different activities too.
Sewing machine took the dynamic simple process of sewing to the next level by creating building manufacture of products that would play a huge part in industries worldwide. Walter Hunt built the first eye pointed needle sewing machine, which was
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