Pictured is my Singer treadle sewing machine dating to about 1901, previously my mother's and my grandmother's. Many inventors modified and improved sewing machines through the 1800s. Elias Howe ...

Visitors to a new farmhouse in the Willamette Valley can learn the history of the industrious Chapin family by walking up the ...

[Grow Your Own Clothes] had finally found their ideal sewing machine for doing zig-zag stitches (/\/\/\) and converting to a treadle drive (mechanically foot-fed) — a Singer 411G. This is a well ...

Sewing machines are complex beasts ... this might historically have had a hand crank or pulley for a treadle or external motor to power the sewing. It serves to allow the operator to manually ...

Pratt was entranced by his mother's Singer treadle sewing machine. In a home with no electricity or running water, the machine and its accessories were like toys for young A.J., as he came to be ...

The crank shaft can be revolved either by working the treadle with the feet or by means of the rod. In case the machine is not provided with this pitman, a bar is clamped on the usual pitman near ...

The lockdown saw sales of sewing machines soar and stock sell out ... he’s the one who showed me how to work the treadle. He also passed on the old wives’ tale that people should chew on thread ...

It is estimated that over a million sewing machines are now at work in the United ... the body in a manner free from the objections of the treadle motion would be better. The slight swaying ...

Frocktails will feature about 32 models, and some will wear a second or third outfit. Keech Swerling will be show a ...

Also, true to many ladies of that era, she sewed his “feed sack shirts” on a Singer treadle sewing machine. Often barefoot, if they ever received an injury, John’s mother administered an old ...

Members of Redditch Rotary and Redditch Kingfisher Rotary Clubs have joined forces to support the Tools With A Mission ...

This sewing machine was one of the first ever manufactured by Singer. Singer sewing machines was founded by Issac Singer in 1850. This model was manufactured in 1865 in Singer's factory ...