machine-sewn

The price of a handmade suit tends to run about 20 percent higher than its machine-sewn counterpart.

Otherwise, even the best lingerie is machine-sewn, which isn't to say it's mass-produced.

Like machine-sewn stitching, the whole thread unraveled itself at a single tug.

A plain seam is the most common type of machine-sewn seam.

Less expensive versions may substitute machine-sewn soles, but all the shoes are sewed together by hand at the store.

The 3 by 5 nylon flag, with embroidered stars and machine-sewn stripes, has a gold cord and tassel.

Once she was asked by a friend to redo some machine-sewn zippers because he preferred my niang's delicate stitchwork.

The practical test consists of inspecting and repacking 20 reserves, along with hand sewing and a simple machine-sewn patch on a canopy.

The clothing is almost entirely machine-sewn, generally inexpensively made, and was purchased from a range of ready-to-wear manufacturers particularly in Birmingham and Leicester.

The group regularly furnishes 120 nonprofit agencies, hospitals and homeless shelters with hand- and machine-sewn or crocheted blankets, quilts and handmade toys.

To allay worries that machine-sewn bags were inferior to traditional hand-sewn bags, Judson Bemis unconditionally guaranteed every bag his company manufactured.

Mr. Flamm's stars and stripes feature machine-sewn stripes and embroidered stars, and come in cotton, nylon or woven polyester.

This tradition is sustained by a handful of boot makers who craft bespoke, or made-to-measure, riding boots as well as by several companies selling ready-made models that are machine-sewn.

A late date was assigned to the quilt because a cotton binding was machine-sewn to the quilt apparently at the same time the squares were handstitched - a feat impossible before 1860.

During the Second Boer War (1899-1902), civilian manufacturers made a series of variants on the Pattern 1037 due to differing manufacturing techniques (like machine-sewn uppers or glued-on outer soles).

A surprising group of abstract paintings, composed of intricate, shifty, figure-ground relationships, includes an ingenious fabric "reconstruction" from 1979 whose illusionistic spatial effects are achieved by the deployment of machine-sewn cloth scraps.

Massimo Audiello 526 West 26th Street, Chelsea Through Dec. 1 Angelo Filomeno's work looks like a combination of precision-tooled drawing and painting, though it's actually machine-sewn embroidery on pieces of silk stretched over canvas.

A monofilament cap-a thin, soft mesh base into which hairs are knotted by hand-is typically more comfortable and more natural-looking than a standard cap with wefts, in which layers of hair are machine-sewn into the base.

For Countries and Teams Abacrome Inc., a Manhattan flag and custom banner shop, stocks a large range of machine-sewn American and foreign flags, as well as miniature printed flags for each team in the National Football League ($1.98).