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Diagram of a modern sewing machineAnimation of a modern sewing machine as it stitches
A sewing machine is a machine used to sew fabric and materials together with thread. Sewing machines were invented during the first Industrial Revolution to decrease the amount of manual sewing work performed in clothing companies. Since the invention of the first sewing machine, generally considered to have been the work of Englishman Thomas Saint in 1790,[1] the sewing machine has greatly improved the efficiency and productivity of the clothing industry.
Home sewing machines are designed for one person to sew individual items while using a single stitch type at a time. In a modern sewing machine, the process of stitching has been automated, so that the fabric easily glides in and out of the machine. Early sewing machines were powered by either constantly turning a flywheel handle or with a foot-operated treadle mechanism. Electrically-powered machines were later introduced.
Industrial sewing machines, by contrast to domestic machines, are larger, faster, and more varied in their size, cost, appearance, and tasks.
A sewingmachine is a machine used to sew fabric and materials together with thread. Sewingmachines were invented during the first Industrial Revolution...
Sewing is the craft of fastening or attaching objects using stitches made with a sewing needle and thread. Sewing is one of the oldest of the textile...
sewingmachines, first established as I. M. Singer & Co. in 1851 by Isaac M. Singer with New York lawyer Edward C. Clark. Best known for its sewing machines...
A sewingmachine is a machine used to stitch fabric and other materials together with thread. Sewingmachines were invented during the first Industrial...
The White SewingMachine was the first sewingmachine from the White SewingMachine Company. It used a vibrating shuttle bobbin driver design. For that...
A sewingmachine needle is a specialized needle for use in a sewingmachine. A sewingmachine needle consists of: shank - clamped by the sewing machine's...
532842°N 81.635034°W / 41.532842; -81.635034 The White SewingMachine Company was a sewingmachine company founded in 1858 in Templeton, Massachusetts,...
American inventor best known for his creation of the modern lockstitch sewingmachine. Elias Howe Jr. was born on July 9, 1819, to Dr. Elias Howe Sr (1792–1867)...
Girl at SewingMachine is an oil-on-canvas painting by Edward Hopper, executed in 1921, now in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, Spain. It portrays...
The Leader SewingMachine Company produced sewingmachines from 1870 to 1899 or thereabout. The base of operations shows as 479 to 497 Case Avenue, Cleveland...
Motor Corporation. According to Aisin, he was so pleased with the first sewingmachine, he decided to apply the same Toyota branding as his auto business,...
The Jones SewingMachine Company was a British manufacturer of sewingmachines founded in 1860 by William Jones and Thomas Chadwick under the name Chadwick...
Machine embroidery is an embroidery process whereby a sewingmachine or embroidery machine is used to create patterns on textiles. It is used commercially...
The Merrow SewingMachine Company, best known for inventing the overlock sewingmachine, is a manufacturer of sewingmachines. After the explosion of his...
The SewingMachine Combination or the SewingMachine Trust was the first patent pool in US history. It was formed by the "Albany Agreement" of 24 October...
or seaming. Usually an overlock sewingmachine will cut the edges of the cloth as they are fed through (such machines being called sergers in North America)...
hemstitch sewingmachine, invented in 1893 by a Swiss inventor and entrepreneur Karl Friedrich Gegauf. Currently, the company's products include sewing machines...
computers, consumer and industrial sewingmachines, large machine tools, label printers, typewriters, fax machines, and other computer-related electronics...
National SewingMachine Company was a Belvidere, Illinois-based manufacturer founded in the late 19th century. The company manufactured sewingmachines, washing...
A sewing needle, used for hand-sewing, is a long slender tool with a pointed tip at one end and a hole (or eye) to hold the sewing thread. The earliest...
produces sewingmachines, with manufacturing plants in Japan, Taiwan and Thailand. The company name until September 30, 2021 was Janome SewingMachine Co....
Longarm quilting is the process by which a longarm sewingmachine is used to sew together a quilt top, quilt batting and quilt backing into a finished...
lockstitch domestic sewingmachines produced by the Singer Manufacturing Company from 1933 to 1968, significant among sewingmachines for their continuing...
This is a list of stitches used in hand and machinesewing. The most common standard for stitches in the apparel industry is ASTM International ASTM D6193-16(2020)...
account of Elias Howe inventing the needle of the modern lockstitch sewingmachine in a dream. A traditional needle has its eye at its base, but Howe was...
mechanism for feeding the workpiece through a sewingmachine as it is being stitched. It is most useful for sewing heavy materials where needle feed is mechanically...
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