Illustrated Sewing Definitions: Seam Allowance
See the wikipedia entry for seam allowance. Seam allowance is the area between the outer edge of the fabric and where you stitch the seam in the fabric.
Sewing Definitions With Pictures
It’s funny, but I am not finding many nice reference sites for sewing. There are tons of sites with descriptions and pictures of clothing, but trying to find definitions with images seems impossible. I am going to start putting together exactly that. Sewing is a topic where a picture is worth two thousand words. In [...]
What’s Wrong With Idealist
I was reading The Long Tail by and I ran across a quote he uses when discussing the Pro-Am movement (professional and amateur). Karl Marx was perhaps the original prophet of the Pro-Am economy. As Demos notes, “In The German Ideology, written between 1845 and 1847, Marx maintained that labor-forced, unspontaneous and waged work-would be [...]
is working way, way too late. …
is working way, way too late. Seriously.
