B&B Embroidery thrives in Sidney, Maine.

Publication: Kennebec Journal (Augusta, Maine) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)

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COPYRIGHT 2005 Kennebec Journal

Byline: Chuin-Wei Yap

Aug. 21--SIDNEY -- Not far from where Pond Road slips from Sidney into Augusta, a long unpaved driveway leads to B&B Embroidery.

The shop is a house set deep in the kind of quiet, bucolic surroundings that make up so much of the rural town.

But inside its 1,500-square-foot basement, one is greeted not by old ladies with needles and hoops, but by the sweet sound of industry.

Manufacturing is unmistakable here, with the knocking heads of sewing bobbins, the whirling threads of spools and spindles, and the jangling, clattering noise of production.

"If you ask my wife, she'll say I ... " and at this point, B&B's owner Bob Kittredge coughs out the next word behind his hand -- "sew."

"But the thing that got me excited was the computers doing...

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