seamstress

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Welsh described Hogg as a "punk-rock Paisley seamstress".

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

The son of a seamstress and a mechanic, Wirun was a straight-A student who studied at one of Thailand's top medical schools.

From Barron's • Dec. 28, 2025

"We have invented Mildred, the rebel seamstress from the 11th Century," she says.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025

Tired of wearing the clothes that his seamstress mother made for him, Strachan raised money for shopping by working on a fishing boat, spending weeks at a time at sea.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025

In the days before Claudette’s trial, E. D. Nixon also called Rosa Parks, a soft-spoken, forty-two-year-old professional seamstress who had for many years been secretary of the Montgomery NAACP.

From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose