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 ...

Before the world became motorised and digitised we used animals to help us in our daily work. Although horses and cattle were the most common animal aids, one clever Victorian came up with a sewing ...

Dress designers everywhere have French tailor Barthelemy Thimonnier to thank for inventing the first functional sewing machine in 1830. But more than 170 years later, Potters Bar inventor Philip Shad ...

Early efforts -- Elements of a successful machine -- The "Sewing-Machine Combination" -- Less expensive machines -- Appendixes: Notes on the development and commercial use of the sewing machine -- ...

Digital version of the 2d ed., rev. and expanded. First published in 1968 under title: The invention of the sewing machine. Digital imaging information: Original images captured at 400 dpi in ...

We're relying on the experts to answer this one and who better than the folks from the International Sewing Machine Collectors' Society? Historians of the sewing machine's early days can argue for ...

For most of us, an image of a woman stoically engaged in needlework is just another overused movie trope. But there was a time when stitching a pair of trousers took over four days, and women spent ...

ARCHIMEDES had his moment of inspiration in the bath. Jim McConkey had his while working at his day job at a sewing machine factory. It was two weeks after the Potters Bar rail disaster on May 10, ...