Adroitly working the vocabulary of contemporary collage, Dodi Wexler cuts, stitches, burns, pastes and punctures old stamps, photographs, maps, handmade Japanese papers, string, wire and miscellaneous snippets to produce a group of intricate creations that seem at times to be almost living organisms.
Some clothes can be made into something new with a few cuts, stitches, and beads!
"His face was a mess — cut, stitched and swollen — and it seemed like he had a bandage or cast on all kinds of body parts," Cox said.
This uses a vacuum grip to pick up pieces of fabric and move them to another machine, which might cut, stitch, add buttons or carry out other finishing tasks.
After being cut, stitched and "cooked" to reshape the leather, the ballet flats and low heels (a few higher-heeled styles are made elsewhere in Europe) are checked for flaws by an exacting shoe "doctor".
Makers, as they call themselves, can't compete with the long, orderly rows of workers from the poorer provinces of China or India who cut, stitch and solder bras, shoes and cellphones for pennies — or even with the hundreds of billions of dollars a year worth of stuff that continues to pour out of large, old-fashioned American factories.
In order to create Oscar de la Renta's silk faille gown, 14 seamstresses toiled for 36 hours, while one Kiton suit takes more than 20 hours to hand cut, stitch and iron.
Surry Wood has the cuts, bruises, stitches and concussion to prove it.
It produced 49 fouls, 63 free throws, 2 cuts, 7 stitches and numerous bruises in a variety of colors.
Some do what my father did: attend to urgent but not emergency situations, taking care of people with stomach pain, fever, cuts needing stitches and the like.
Children and families said that cuts requiring stitches are common in the fields, and many more children suffer burns from caustic fertiliser that they spread by hand.
