TED Talks
TED: 3 creative ways to fix fashion's waste problem | Amit Kalra
What happens to the clothes we don't buy? You might think that last season's coats, trousers and turtlenecks end up being put to use, but most of it (nearly 13 million tons each year in the united States alone) ends up in landfills....
Brave Wilderness
WILL IT FIT... in the Museum?
On this episode of Beyond Dinosaurs, Coyote and the crew head to Hill City, South Dakota, and team up with renowned paleontologist Peter Larson to learn how to clean and prepare the fossils they found on their fossil hunting excursion!...
Vlogbrothers
The Woman Who Invented Stuffed Animals
In which John discusses the extraordinary life of Margarete Steiff and the invention of stuffed animals. I first learned about Margarete Steiff while researching the (genuinely astonishing) history of teddy bears; History is both a story...
Barcroft Media
Creating Confidence: Living with a Stoma Bag
This video tells the inspiring story of Heather, a vet technician who was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer and had to undergo surgery to have a stoma fitted. During her recovery, she learned how to sew and started creating beautiful...
NASA
NASA's Curious Universe: Sewing for Spaceflight
Sewing machines, tape, scissors. Just like you might visit a tailor to get your pants hemmed or your suit fitted, NASA calls on a group of very creative problem-solvers to custom-make protective shields for our space missions.
Weird History
What Was Up With Those Victorian Skirts?
Crinolines put the hoop in the Victorian-era skirt. For two decades, women wore crinolines - lightweight cages attached to their waists - under their clothing to create a wide, bell-shaped silhouette. Thanks to crinolines, hoop skirts...
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Production of knitwear, Winding machine for the dissolution of defective knitwear
Production of knitwear, Winding machine for the dissolution of defective knitwear
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Fashion industry
Workers in the fashion district move racks of clothing through streets near 7th Avenue / interior of clothing factory, pattern maker, cloth cutter, sewing machine operator, stitcher, spools of processed fiber, nylons, textiles Fashion...
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Female Leaders
Young fashion designers in the office. She is working on designing and tailoring her own models. She is just 40 and a successful entrepreneur
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Macro bobbin on a sewing machine
Macro shot of a bobbin on a sewing machine being wound with thread.