The sewing machine is one of the most transformative inventions in history. Before its creation, making clothes was a slow, labor-intensive process. Every stitch was done by hand, limiting how quickly ...

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Jeri fired up her sewing machine and made Sutton a book bag in blue fabric, Sutton’s favorite color. “Sutton had one and then her little best friend wanted one,” Whitney explains.

The Singer Sewing Machine Company is credited – that’s the right word – with popularizing the idea of the installment plan. Starting in 1856, a customer could buy a sewing machine for a very modest ...

H. WHITE as the White Mfg. Co. in 1866. Ten years later it was known as White Sewing Machine Co., with 600 employees producing the White Rotary Bobbin sewing machine in a 5-story factory on Canal St.

In their paper, titled "Creating Furniture-Scale Deployable Objects with a Computer-Controlled Sewing Machine," they describe a collection of functional flat-to-shape artifacts they created with ...

Since retiring from teaching about six years ago, Richard Wagner has repaired roughly 40 sewing machines and donated them to Afghan refugees. It’s a calling Wagner gets philosophical about. “There’s ...

manufacture sewing machines using the eye pointed needle and two t[???]s obliged to pay him a [???] The patent of EIJAS HOWE. Jr., covers the made of making the stitch termed the "lock stitch ...

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The relations between machine configuration and adjustment, material properties, and the resulting product quality are also complex. This paper describes current work using an instrumented lockstitch ...

Keen crafts people and sewers will know just how useful a handheld sewing machine can be, especially for those times when you need to fix a stitch in an awkward position – and it's ideal to sew on the ...