Head, Carol "Old Sewing Machines" Shire Publications Ltd, Buckinghamshire:
c.1995
page 22
"..In Germany in 1882 John Kayser built a sewing machine that could sew with
a zigzag stitch. This idea had been developed in America as early as 1854,
when a buttonhole machine was patented. The zigzag stitch was used in the
1870s in special purpose machines and these were the forerunners of today's
domestic swing-needle models."
Sarah Paterson
----- Original Message -----
There's a mention somewhere of a buttonhole machine that was developed in
the
later stages of the american civil war, but I've never seen any physical
evidence of it.
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