The inquiry "Who invented the sewing machine?" has kept a lot of people talking for many, many years by many different people in many different sewing communities, and rightfully so. The sewing ...

The sewing machine was one of the first complex household technologies — a device that combined precision gears, timed motion ...

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Q I want to tell you about my Grandma’s sewing machine that I inherited. It’s a Singer in a cabinet that closes to look like a table. I have a more modern machine now, and I was thinking about taking ...