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Adriana Ugarte plays Sira Quiroga, a seamstress turned spy in The Time Between Seams. It was the most popular TV drama in Spanish history.

In Spain, a beautiful seamstress from another era has created a sewing revival

February 11, 2014Arts, Culture & Media

Amazon’s Spanish affiliate was flooded with orders for sewing machines every Monday night after “The Time Between Seams” aired this fall. It’s the most popular TV drama in Spanish history and stars a beautiful and daring seamstress turned spy, set during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s.

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