[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 ...

And before the ovation could die down, he pointed again to a sister and another brother, gifting them a sewing machine and another tricycle, respectively. After that, he stated that, at intervals ...

Author Martha Stewart writes in our 101 Objects Special Issue: Isaac Merritt Singer's sewing machine was a vast improvement upon earlier versions, capable of 900 stitches a minute -at a time when ...

The effects produced on the latter class of females by the use of the sewing machine have been thoroughly studied, particularly in Prance, and have been found to comprise a variety of ills ...

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 ...