thread maker

The thread maker had tested many knots without success.

Pierre worked there as a thread maker and learned how to read and write at workers' evening classes.

"We have button makers, fabric makers, thread makers, zipper makers, you name it."

The city's largest textile firm is American & Efird, Inc. (A&E), the world's second-largest thread maker.

His father is a controller at Eddington Thread Manufacturing and the Marionette Company, both industrial thread makers in Philadelphia.

Ms. Mallis added: "There are the fashion magazines, advertising, cosmetics, modeling agencies, shopping bag producers, trucking, hangers, thread makers, department stores, let alone the real estate business dependent on fashion retail.