Ambience/ASMR: Victorian Seamstress Shop on London Street (19th Century Marketplace), 4 Hours

List of Sounds: - the pedestrian bustle of a well-trodden market street: the clack & clatter of leather boots and sculpted heels against pavement; fleeting moments of conversation overheard from passers-by - the sporadic chirping of tiny but hardy city-birds - the clip-clop of horse-drawn carriages, coaches, hansom cabs, wagons, and carts - an occasional whizzing of bicycle wheels, evidence of the 1890s “bike boom“ - the cheerful chatter of hawkers & peddlers trading their wares; the enthusiastic, affable greetings unique to streetside salesmen - the briefly polite pleasantries exchanged by shopkeepers & customers - the chipper ringing of the cash-register bell; the click & jingle of coins - the shop’s elderly seamstress reminiscing aloud as she sews - smoothing, folding, swishing, brushing, and rustling fabric, this artist’s chosen medium; as both seamstress and dressmaker, she crafts masterpieces of silk, wool, cotton, and linen - the lulling m
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