By 1863, the Singer Manufacturing Company held 22 patents and sold 20,000 sewing machines yearly. Within eight years, the yearly sales reached 180,000 sewing machines, which included their New ...

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Starting as early as 1949, the company undertook three experiments to create a baseball stitching machine: EX#16002, EX#16116, and EX#16279. These three projects document experimental work in the ...

The pleasant hum of a sewing machine fills a busy work space in Johnston Square, just off the corner of Greenmount Avenue and Preston Street. It’s an industrial sound that once reverberated a… ...

The best sewing machines are workhorses that can do it all: mend holes on clothes, make fun costumes, piece together quilts and craft scrunchies, for starters. What’s more, they’re built to ...

These commercial sewing machines were built in Orson C. Phelps’s machine shop in Boston. The head, base cams, and gear wheels of the machine were made of cast iron; to fit together, these parts had to ...

Pacheco, 48, says he grew up in Fall River and has been doing commercial sewing machine repair and service work his entire adult life since graduating Durfee High School, ...

TORRINGTON >> On a day filled with sunshine and good cheer, the employees of Commercial Sewing celebrated the company’s 50th anniversary. The company family gathered at the factory Wednesday ...

The first commercial sewing machines came out in the late 1850s and by 1905 the first electric machines were in use. They helped usher in the age of “ready made” clothing.