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My Old Singer. made in 1902 Old Singer Sewing Machines History
By this invention the needle woman is enabled to perform her labor in comfort; tasks that used to require the midnight watch - and drag through perhaps 20 hours, she can now complete in two or three.
1930
COVER OF SINGER LIBRARY: I think life would be so much more pleasant were it not for the trouble and bother of making clothes. Oh deliver me from the monotonous stitch, stitch from morning til night and rest for aching eyes, sore fingers, and the like.
Anyone could learn to operate a sewing machine; it could even be "thrilling" to use the new machine:
(Like the one I learned to sew on.)
HISTORY OF HOME OF MANUFACTURE OF MY SINGER MACHINE Near the northern edge of the Port of Elizabeth, New Jersey, is the hulking Singer Manufacturing Company plant. Isaac Singer 1811 - 75 INVENTOR OF THE SINGER Isaac Singer was the eighth child of poor German immigrants in New York. He worked as a mechanic and cabinet maker, but his first love was the theater. Not finding financial success in acting, he turned to inventing. His first invention was a mechanical excavator. Singer patented a type-casting machine for book printing and
displayed it in a steam-powered workshop run by Orson Phelps, who designed
sewing machines. Phelps' customers kept returning the machines because of faulty
design. Singer With Phelps' encouragement, Singer devoted his energies to the sewing machine from then on, and eventually made his fortune there. In 1851 he patented the first rigid-arm sewing machine. His design also included a table to support the cloth horizontally, a vertical presser foot, and a foot treadle. He had an acute business mind and initiated important merchandising practices. A few of these included mass marketing, using women to demonstrate the machines, installment buying, and providing service along with sales. Singer continued to be active in the sewing machine business until 1863, when he retired to live in Paris and London. He died in 1875 at the age of 63.
Antique Sewing
My Old Singer. made in 1902 Mama's Montgomery Ward Sew Machine Sewing mends the soul! Here is my old faithful Kenmore Sewing Machine that is about 35 years old and still sewing better than the new ones. When you start sewing in your own sew room, it makes it much more fun. My Sewing Machine
I have three sewing machine, a straight sewer, a serger and the one at top. I have my mother's old antique sewing machine from which I learned to sew.
Quote: You want to do away with the only thing that keeps women quiet - their sewing - Isaac Singer
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Antique Sewing
The Needle-Bar Collectors site with much useful information about identification and care of old sewing machines. INTERNATIONAL SEWING MACHINE COLLECTOR'S SOCIETY Sewing Machines from the past to the present Restoring Restore your old vintage Sewing Machine Stepping Stone Quilts…. Run by Chris Vagtborg… excellent US source for belts, crank conversion parts and other items, as well as quilting supplies… located in Georgia… http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/webspinner/quilts.htm Treadle Sewing Machine Poem
Sewing fills my days, not to mention the living room, bedroom and closets.
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examined the machines and suggested improvements. Phelps' shuttle
passed around a circle; Singer recommended that the shuttle move to and fro in a
straight path. Instead of a curved needle that moved horizontally, Singer
proposed a straight needle to be used vertically.
