In a sunlit studio in the Xuanhua district of Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, the air smells faintly of burned wood. Guo Chunlei leans over a golden gourd. The tiny hot-tip soldering iron in his hand ...
For many sewers, choosing paper patterns from one of Simplicity McCall’s ‘big four’ brands was an in-store ritual. But others say digital patterns are the way of the future Decades ago, in the ...