At 95 years old, Ruth Taube has spent the last half-century teaching a Lower East Side sewing class
When Ruth Taube is in need of a scrap of fabric for a sewing project, be it a bit of lace or a stretch of something in a colorful pattern, she doesn’t have to look far.
The shelves of her “office,” a community basement room in a Lower East Side affordable-housing project where she teaches the time-honored craft of working with needle and thread, are bulging with many such remnants. After all, Ms. Taube belongs to a generation that firmly believes in letting nothing go to waste.
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