Costura in english
Sewing
pronunciation: soʊɪŋ part of speech: noun
pronunciation: soʊɪŋ part of speech: noun
In gestures
costura1 = dressmaking ; needlework ; sewing.
Example: Another activities organized by the library are comic, jigsaw, knitting and dressmaking swap shops.Example: She is still very much a children's book borrower with a smattering of titles taken from the applied sciences, which in Susan's case meant books on cookery and needlework.Example: Judith's mother put down her sewing, picked Judith up and slapped her fanny.more:
» alta costura = haute couture .
Example: The article is entitled 'Exhibits in the American Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair: women's clothing, men's gadgets, hot dogs and haute couture'.» caja de la costura = sewing box ; sewing basket .
Example: You may remember seeing charming strawberry pincushions like these in your grandmother's sewing box. Example: Fill your sewing basket with helpful accessories so that you can sew on a button, darn a sock, or fix a torn hem.costura2 = seam ; stitching.
Example: Attempts to use leather-covered rollers in place of ink-balls for hand-press work had been made soon after 1800, but they were frustrated by the unavoidable marks made by the seam with which the leather was sewn on.Example: After unpinning the shirt, I noticed that the stitching under the right arm is slightly more pronounced than under the left arm.more:
» bordado sin costuras = needlepoint lace .
Example: Not uncommonly the user will need to see everything that is available, on for example, infant deaths, or Rhode Island Reds, or needlepoint lace, or miners' lamps.» sin costuras = seamless .
Example: The solution was found to be a composition of glue and treacle which could be cast on to the roller stock and which made a seamless, resilient surface that inked perfectly.