There’s a needle and some thread. But how does the machine make a stitch? We always wondered, but after watching a recent video from [Veritasium] we can at least claim we have an idea.

Now if you're still on the fence, here's the part that may make it all better: to do this sort of work requires an industrial sewing machine.

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