Clients hear the machine before they hear us. Some of them were in her shop and got sent up.
We warn her when a film day needs quiet on the stairs. She picks a different hour for the loud seams.
Her own coat was the job that taught us to stop when the hem is clear.
Frontcompect is one room above a tailor in Orhei. Tuesday is the table. Thursday is the courtyard, if the limestone is dry enough to stand on. Cellar jobs are in Butuceni or in the client's own hole in the rock. We photograph the low door and the damp. We do not swap in a brighter cave from somewhere else.