Sentences with word «treadle»

Butter was rinsed in melted ice water, and wrapped in cheesecloth or a clean cotton tea towel often made from fabric sugar bags (sugar came in real cloth bags that were washed, then bleached in the sun and saved to sew up numerous household items, including war time beautiful embroidered pillowcases featuring hand drawn art; just one type of gift I recall seeing made, on a Singer treadle sewing machine.
Examples include helping farmers use treadle pumps to improve yields and income; tackling indoor air pollution through the provision of clean cooking solutions and making clean, renewable energy available to households and communities for the first time.
AFRIpads are produced in two workshops, one of which is without electricity, using treadle - powered sewing machines and sergers, in rural Uganda.
A video of hands feeding fabric through, stitching endlessly is projected onto an old treadle sewing machine bound in white thread.
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Marc made it a few years ago, from an old singer sewing machine treadle base and some scrap wood.
Becky and I agreed dating wheeler and wilson sewing machines a good looking treadle table would be best located in the dining room, where we could use is as a little sideboard or side table to put flowers when it is closed up.
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TH: Climate Care is particularly proud of the additional development benefits that are associated with many of its projects, yet some observers have baulked at the idea of wealthy westerners continuing to pollute, while funding low tech projects like treadle pumps in the developing world.
I didn't have a console table in our foyer until I realized that we could place our antique treadle sewing machine there.
I worked with wood and cloth; I got an old treadle sewing machine and made things like a huge armchair with a figure in it which I called Daddy Reading the Newspaper.
To take this to an extreme, every able - bodied person could be drafted into the green economy, taking their turn to power treadles (especially on calm or cloudy days!)
A potter will leave his treadle, a mason white with grout kneel to kiss your sandal, and all the stones cry out....
His invention is human - powered (using a treadle, like an old sewing machine) and can charge old car batteries that then provide...
His invention is human - powered (using a treadle, like an old sewing machine) and can charge old car batteries that then provide electricity for night - time LED lighting (so kids can read!)
Mine is a treadle sewing machine from the 40's and Marc's is a sewing cabinet with a lift up lid and a tiny draw for storage.
The machine was made as a hand crank, treadle and ISMACS Singer Serial Number lookup.
I have a treadle singer sewing machine I have painted white (it was already painted, half stripped with paint stripper and sanded and has been hanging around for nearly twenty years with my husband threatening to throw it out every council clean up), a tiny cupboard top ornament cabinet, numerous picture frames, a chest of drawers and a CD holder all in various stages of paint and sanding waiting for me to tackle them.
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A monitor sits on the floor, playing a video loop of a woman weaving in a dimly lit workshop, rapidly passing her shuttle back and forth and pumping her feet on the loom's treadles.
In reality, with efficient cooking stoves or treadle pumps for example, people often comment that the technologies we are supporting have revolutionised their lives.
Not only is the action of replacing the diesel pump with the treadle pump helping reduce CO2 emissions, it saves money in the long run, improves crop yields, thus improving the lives of the farmer and her family.
I am now in the process of bringing my great grandmother's treadle sewing machine back to life so I can learn to sew stuff for our new home — much to my mum's delight.
Your wooden bowl or trough in the picture above is inspiring me to do something with my camel milk bowl — perhaps on the treadle sewing machine (closed) just inside the front door.
Forgot to mention, one of my favorite things is my husband's grandmother's treadle sewing machine (closed) in my tiny entryway.
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