In a message dated 7/7/06 12:58:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And I was in the fabric/sewing-machine/vacuum-cleaner store
today and thought I'd better ask whether that statement was
still true -- I spotted the leather belts hanging on the
wall behind the
Joy Beeson wrote:
Those belts are still being made.
And I was in the fabric/sewing-machine/vacuum-cleaner store
today and thought I'd better ask whether that statement was
still true -- I spotted the leather belts hanging on the
wall behind the repairman when I was halfway through asking
I endorse what Tamara says. Don't know Jeri's background, but I too come
from a long line of weavers, tailors and dressmakers all in the East End of
London (the poor part), and the emphasis was on making basic plain clothing,
reusing the good parts of discarded clothes from the wealthy, hemming
Domestic sewing machines were used for domestic sewing - plain sewing,
seams and hems. Very few people had a sewing machine at home prior to
the 20th century. Industrial machines, which were around in factories
from early/mid 19th century *were* used (and designed for) embroidery.
Brenda
uses
the
capacity of the machinery they own, I certainly don't.
Mary Carey
Campbelltown, NSW, Australia
From: Adele Shaak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Adele Shaak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [lace] embroidery tool and sewing machines
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 08:43:25 -0700
Angel Skubic wrote:
I have an old singer treadle machine. I love it. It needs
a new belt though...the other one just plain got old and
dry...
Those belts are still being made. Ask at any place that
repairs sewing machines. The belt is held together by an S
hook, and there is a notch in the
Sewing machines that can do embroidery stitches are relatively new,
although my mother's old (early 1950's) Necchi can do a whole lot of
neat designs. But the Singer manual for treadle machines included
instruction for making lace and embroidering with the straight stitch-
only machines.
My husband was given an old sewing machine dated about around mid 1850's
which he did a small repair job on. That sews with a chain stitch, rather
than the running stitch of todays sewing machine.
He downloaded information about it from the internet and it says the
original was made in wood
Tamara's thoughts are about domestic sewing machines, and yes domestic
embroidery machines do only date from mid/late 20 century, BUT
industrial machines that could make fancy stitches go back a lot
further.
The Handmachine is recorded as early as 1829. That's the machine which
has one
Tamara wrote:
the early instruction booklets that came with machines.
What's early? And, does anyone know how well those early
combination machines sold? As opposed to the two -- independent
(sewing and embroidery) -- ones?
I think the book referred to was put out by the Singer sewing
fully uses the
capacity of the machinery they own, I certainly don't.
Mary Carey
Campbelltown, NSW, Australia
From: Adele Shaak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Adele Shaak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [lace] embroidery tool and sewing machines
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 08:43:25 -0700
@arachne.com
Subject: RE: [lace] embroidery tool and sewing machines
Hi All,
I have a copy of Singer Instructions for Art Embroidery and Lace Work
and
it is the Eighth Edition. It lists 1922, 1923, 1925, 1931, 1937, 1941,
and
1948 as the years of the other editions.
Subjects include Eyelet
On Jul 1, 2006, at 12:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We all need to remember that when what we call sewing machines were
first
invented, much emphasis was placed on the features for embroidery and
lace
techniques,
Are you certain-sure of that? I come from a long line of
taylors/dressmakers
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