The next step was then to cut the folios, sew and glue them at their centers, making it easier to use the papyrus or vellum recto-verso as with a modern book.

They often have group sewing and quilting classes, where one can learn how to sew or quilt and work with others to exchange skills.

A costume associated with Cockneys is that of the Pearly Kings and Queens | pearly King ( or pearly Queen ) worn by London costermonger s who sew thousands of pearl buttons onto their clothing in elaborate and creative patterns.

One of the female attendants of the palace, charged to sew up the cloth that contained the patient, having come to the neck, the fixed point where she was to finish her seam, made a knot according to custom ; but as there was still remaining an end of thread, instead of cutting it as usual with scissors, she had recourse to the candle, which immediately set fire to the whole cloth.

They tried to sew it on, but it didn't take, so I grew up with nine fingers.

Boys will typically continue to learn their fathers ' trade and girls will begin learning to sew and cook and are generally married by 18 to 20 years of age with parental consent per Georgia law.

Crust punks sometimes sew articles of clothing with found or cheaply bought materials, such as dental floss.

There, the Dwarfs take pity on her, saying " If you will keep house for us, and cook, make beds, wash, sew, and knit, and keep everything clean and orderly, then you can stay with us, and you shall have everything that you want.

To build a nest, some of these ants pull the edges of two leaves together and hold them in place, while others carry larva in their jaws and ' sew ' them together with the silk they secrete.

A speculative and unattested etymology connects b-r-q-ʿ with the Arabic root r-q-ʿ, which means " to patch up " or " to sew up ".

In the 19th century, hunters began bringing their trophies to upholstery shops, where the upholsterers would actually sew up the animal skins and stuff them with rags and cotton.

Melco patented the ability to sew circles with a satin stitch, as well as arched lettering generated from a keyboard.

Then she lived with her mother's mistress Margaret Horniblow, who taught Harriet to read, write and sew.

1996 featured a slightly revamped interior with a new upholstery sew style, larger analog gauge cluster, relocated climate control system, and updated stereo faces.

A nearly invisible material like fishing line can be used to sew each knot of net to the fabric ( often with a drop of glue for strength ).

* Some dialects of northern Portugal still contrast the predorsodental sibilants c / ç and z with apicoalveolar sibilants s ( s ) and s, with minimal pairs such as passo " step " and paço " palace " or coser " to sew " and cozer " to cook ", which are homophones in most dialects.

In some cases where the phonemic merger would render words homophonic in Spanish America, one member of the pair is frequently replaced by a synonym or derived form — e. g. caza replaced by cacería, or cocer (" to boil "), homophonic with coser (" to sew "), replaced by cocinar.

Stefani first came face to face with designing clothes when she and her mother would sew clothes for themselves when she was young.

He reportedly came up with the idea while ice skating, and had his grandmother sew tufts of fur between loops of wire.

He reportedly came up with the idea while ice skating, and had his grandmother sew tufts of fur between loops of wire.

His poor grandmother would have to sew perfectly good clothes every day with her poor eyesight.

* Fake fur is a fabric, therefore it is relatively easy to sew with.

When she spoke out of turn, she claims she was forced to sew at a treadle machine with no needle for a fortnight.

Most seams are sewn with backstitch, especially on curved, slanted or loose edges.

All parkas were decorated with bird feathers, beard bristles of seal and sea-lion, beaks of sea parrots, bird claws, sea otter fur, dyed leather, and caribou hair sewn in the seams.

In a garment from Migration period Sweden, roughly 300 – 700 CE, the edges of bands of trimming are reinforced with running stitch, back stitch, stem stitch, tailor's buttonhole stitch, and whipstitching, but it is uncertain whether this work simply reinforces the seams or should be interpreted as decorative embroidery.

Knitted garments are often more form-fitting than woven garments, since their elasticity allows them to follow the body's curvature closely ; by contrast, curvature is introduced into most woven garments only with sewn darts, flares, gussets and gores, the seams of which lower the elasticity of the woven fabric still further.

Techniques of surface mining include ; Open-pit mining which consists of recovery of materials from an open pit in the ground, quarrying or gathering building materials from an open pit mine, strip mining which consists of stripping surface layers off to reveal ore / seams underneath, and mountaintop removal, commonly associated with coal mining, which involves taking the top of a mountain off to reach ore deposits at depth.

The world's oldest leather shoe, made from a single piece of cowhide laced with a leather cord along seams at the front and back, was found in a cave in Armenia in 2008 and is believed to date to 3, 500 B. C.

* Trousers with a single silk or satin braid covering the outer seams

The outer seams are usually decorated with a single braid of silk or a material that matches the lapel facing.

Snowflex with stapled seams

Although the name Cosoniensium seams to be corrupt and questioned by some researchers, the city is identified with Koszalin by top historians including Józef Spors, W. Kowalenko, B. Kurbisówna and Martin Wehrmann.

Most of the geological underpinning of this region is capped with thick sandstone, and formidable coal seams are common in this formation.

The higher areas consist of a sedimentary layer of gravelly soils, known as the Blackheath Beds, that spread through much of the south-east over a chalk outcrop — with sands, loam and seams of clay at the lower levels by the river.

The region is part of the Cumberland Plateau, with shallow but deeply incised stream valleys dissecting sedimentary rock, including significant seams of bituminous coal.

Yet this period was not to last, and as the coal seams became tapped out and the processes outdated and replaced with modern mechanical technology, communities like Penn-Pitt and Poland Mines began to fade as their reason for existence ceased.

The area is also rich with coalbed methane, which is currently being developed from the several underlying coal seams as an alternative fuel source.

About 1855, Patten and Fender contracted with an English immigrant, John Dennis ( a future Plymouth burgess ), to sink a shaft to the coal seams below.

Like other forms of traditional Japanese clothing, yukata are made with straight seams and wide sleeves.

: the parts of caves that are in communication with surface soils through cracks and rock seams, groundwater seepage, and root protrusion.

It has been suggested that there may be up to 30 different seams with of aggregate depth of some 140 feet.

Examples of crevices are gaps and contact areas between parts, under gaskets or seals, inside cracks and seams, spaces filled with deposits and under sludge piles.

A panel, container or enclosure with seams may feature types of strengthened rigidity or sealant to vulnerable edges and joins.

Made of soft leather, drivers gloves are unlined with external seams, which makes them seamless inside so as not to interfere with the sensitivity of the drivers touch on the steering wheel, and subsequently information from where the tire contacts the road.

The paintings date from 790 and were made as frescos, with no seams in the plaster indicating that each room was painted in a single session during the short time that the plaster was moist.