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The women sewing their way to a better life: ‘I knew nothing about fashion and couldn’t even sew on a button the first day I came in here’
Like a concert pianist, Mariam Dudashvili takes a deep breath, fans her fingers out in front and presses her foot on the pedal below. But instead of the classical music she learned as a child in her homeland of Georgia, it’s a repetitive sound that fills the room as she skilfully feeds the fabric in under the fast-moving steel needle of her Juki industrial sewing machine. “I love that whirring sound,” Dudashvili tells me with an infectious smile, as she finishes off yet another apron in the We Make Good textiles studio on Dublin’s Mountjoy Square.