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Civilization's oldest hack: stab a thing repeatedly until it holds together.
means The act of joining, mending, or decorating fabric and other materials by passing thread through them with a needle.
from From Old English 'siwian,' to stitch or fasten with thread, rooted in the Proto-Germanic 'siwjan' and ultimately a Proto-Indo-European root '*syu-,' meaning to bind or sew — a cousin of Latin 'suere' (source of 'suture' and 'couture') and Sanskrit 'sivyati.' The same ancient thread runs through 'seam' and, more surprisingly, 'sutra,' the Sanskrit word for a stitched-together line of text — so a holy verse and a hemmed skirt share a needle's ancestry.
- ancient craft
- Bone needles predate the wheel by tens of millennia
- surgical roots
- Stitching wounds and stitching cloth share a name
- war winner
- Sewing machines clothed armies and built fortunes overnight
- thread tension
- One wrong setting births a tangled bird's nest
- meditative loop
- Repetitive stitching measurably lowers stress and heart rate
great british sew off — bbc competition show that premiered in 2013 with contestants competing in timed sewing challenges
singer sewing machine — isaac merritt singer's 1851 patent revolutionized domestic sewing with the first practical electric version
bernina international — swiss sewing machine manufacturer founded in 1893, known for high-end computerized machines