November 12, 2010
"When a Strobel machine has done its job properly, you can not find how the garment seam is made, by visual inspection - there is no trace of stitching, above the near-microscopic level, because all the thread in an individual stitch is generally hidden inside the fabric plys being stitched. Altogether, in the whole world, there are well less than 900 pairs of KA-ED system Strobel machines, outputting, at most, about 30,000 garments a day. Another 40,000 or so garments of equivalent quality are made by hand, by about 1000 highly skilled artisans, using simpler hand operated blindstitch machines (usually also made by Strobel), and a tremendous amount of hand skill that takes many years to train. That’s it, in terms of total production capability, for this particular operation, in all the world, for top quality horsehair canvas front garments. 70,000 or so garments per day of this construction quality (on this 1 operation), times 265 average working days a year = about 19,000,000 such garments a year, in a world of about 7,000,000,000 people, of whom about 3,500,000,000 might be potential clients. At best, something like 1 out of 184 men on earth could get a garment of the quality that includes this particular construction method, per year."

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  1. artyucko said: i had a really delicious strobel this morning, with maple frosting. didn’t realize it was so _____ complicated. math and puff pastry!
  2. 6h057 said: I liked this better when Kafka wrote it.
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