And every rollerball mouse, too, incidentally, as user "seamster" over at Instructables built a homemade pinball table from various bits of wood he had lying around and, as icing on the cake, used an old mouse rollerball as the pinball.
For it describes a seamster as "a person employed at sewing" but a seamstress as "a woman whose occupation is sewing".
Of course, it came as little suprise to learn later that Marclay, a master seamster with the fabric that is "found" footage, honed his craft cutting together records to create sonic collages.
ON a recent blustery Friday night near McCarren Park in Brooklyn, Nayantara Banerjee, a k a the Williamsburg Seamster, was armored in a poncho sweater, knee-high snow boots from Urban Outfitters and a black-and silver-threaded scarf knotted over her long, jet-black hair.
He found the Seamster online, through a Yelp page, which had plenty of positive reviews.
Another thing that attracted her to the Seamster: "There were some things I didn't trust to leave at a shop".
"Everyone has that pile of clothes that they're like, 'Eventually I'll do something with this.'" Door-to-door service might seem like a modern convenience, but the Seamster is in some sense a throwback.
Ms. Batra first hired the Williamsburg Seamster a few months ago, hearing about her through some friends who work for Market Publique, a Brooklyn Web site for vintage clothing.
"We're hoping that, by bringing Street View there, people will be able to appreciate the efforts that are going on to preserve the islands for the future," said Raleigh Seamster, project leader of Google Earth Outreach.
Indeed, Stevens's biography on his US label's website identifies him as 'a graphic designer, an amateur seamster, a crocheter of ski caps, and a writer of short fiction'.
In our basement in St . Louis he kept an orderly workshop in which he sharpened his tools, repaired his clothes (he was a good seamster), and improvised, out of wood and metal and leather, sturdy solutions to home-maintenance problems.
