After retirement,
Mom sat by the window, with a sewing machine and a cup of hot tea.
The days passed slowly, the fabric flowed through my fingertips,
She uses a sewing machine to sew out little pieces of everyday tenderness, piece by piece.
𝑺𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒌𝒆_𝑯𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆
Every cloth bag is a unique snowflake.
Add a little softness and warmth to life.
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Her name is Snowflake.
"Snowflake" is my mother's name.
This name sounds like a character in a movie, gentle and romantic, but her life has never been romantic, only solid hard work and craftsmanship.
When I was a child, I often saw her back sitting in front of the sewing machine. At that time, she was not only a mother, but also the "garment worker" in the family. She would carry my younger sister on her back while she pedaled the sewing machine and sewed one piece of clothing after another with her hands. That picture is still deeply imprinted in my mind. It is what my mother looks like and what my home looks like.
The year I graduated from elementary school, I didn't go to summer camp or have any vacation.
I followed my mother into the garment factory where she worked.
My mother sat in front of the sewing machine, and I sat on a small stool next to her, helping to cut labels, organize clothes, and classify sizes. Listening to the incessant sound of the sewing machine, I realized how hard she worked every day. It was also the first time I realized that behind "making clothes" is not romance, but the reality of stitch by stitch.
But even though she was sewing clothes for others every day, my mother would still take time to make a dress for us that belonged to the "child of the family." The style of the dress may be simple, but the fabric is always soft and the pattern is always gentle. She said that no matter how busy she is, she cannot be careless about the clothes her children wear.
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Many years later, I am an adult and my mother has retired. But she still didn't stop.
She began to make cloth bags and small items one by one to give to friends and family, and gradually made a name for herself:
𝑺𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝑯𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆
The brand is named after her, Snowflake.
This is not just a brand, but the continuation of a history.
It is the memory I passed on from my mother, the industrial sewing machine I bought in 1989, which is still standing steadily by the window, witnessing the scenery of life together.
Each piece of work is not just a cloth bag.
Rather, it is a piece of love and tenderness sewn from the era of female workers.
