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He points out that visible stitching is a key component in the design of many fashionable garments, perhaps most famously jeans.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
Like something where you look closer and see an interesting fabric or different stitching.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
Robbins says she learned to operate industrial sewing machines, which stitch much faster than home machines, create blind hems where the stitching is essentially invisible, and can cuff a blazer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
Then, as you think about the enterprise, Glen made a good point: It is stitching it all together that is difficult.
From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026
Several tug at the stitching upon their shirts—Liberty to Slaves—which they believed talismanic, as the inscriptions of the African mallams are said to protect against all injury.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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