He has a sewing machine that he runs with two worn foot pedals and stops by grabbing a cast-iron wheel. "My dad sewed on it when I was a kid," he said. "It was old then, and that was in the 1940s." The shop was built in 1945. Its oldest machine, a leather splitter, was made in 1872. Its original power source: a waterwheel. "Why would I get a new one?" he asked. "The old ones work better."
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