archives for Thursday 13 December 2007
how a bobbin works
Thursday 13 December 2007 | 3 cookies in the jar
I dare you not to find this as mesmerizing and hypnotic as I do. Go on. Also curious are the competing versions of its creator’s inspirational dream. You hear most often that inventor Elias Howe, frustrated by his inability to mechanize sewing, fell asleep and dreampt that cannibals in Africa put him in in a [...]
