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Dashew Supply Co.’s Jory Bender, right, is the fourth-generation president of the family-run embroidery sewing supplier, which turns 112 years old this year.Photo by Shannon Lee Zirkle

by ELISHA SAUERS

Dashew Supply Co., an embroidery threads and tools purveyor, with its five-person staff and four-room warehouse off of General's Highway, is a living relic of the once-booming garment industry in Baltimore.
The family-owned company, in its fourth generation, has outlived most of its contemporary competitors and has made many sacrifices to survive major market changes throughout the century.

Founded in 1898 by a young immigrant, Jacob Dashew, under the name J. Dashew Inc., the company began as a sewing-machine parts and repair business.

In the early 20th century, Dashew invented and patented a few unsuspecting machines that revolutionized the industry - an electric automatic buttonhole stitcher that kept the workers' fingers at a safe distance from the vacillating needles and a tea bag maker for McCormick Spice Co. that sewed tea leaves into a filter pouch for easy steeping.......

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