My kids’s dad’s grandmother had been a lace worker in Nottingham. She was an invisible seamstress well into old age—as you probably know but a lot of people don’t, invisible seamstresses were able to do the tiny, nearly invisible mending they specialized in not because their hands were particularly small but because they were trained in that work as children.
Great piece. The NYT can go boil its head with that trash.
My kids’s dad’s grandmother had been a lace worker in Nottingham. She was an invisible seamstress well into old age—as you probably know but a lot of people don’t, invisible seamstresses were able to do the tiny, nearly invisible mending they specialized in not because their hands were particularly small but because they were trained in that work as children.
Great piece. The NYT can go boil its head with that trash.
If an entire industry depends on the size of its workers' hands, the industry is probably the problem, not the hands.
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