I recently acquired this Singer treadle sewing machine for $70. Would you mind telling me if it has any real value? According to the serial number you included in your letter, this sewer, in a Number ...

I haven’t been looking for a sewing machine because I can’t sew. Well, to be technical about it, I can sew but I’m not very good at it and I don’t enjoy it. When my daughters wanted to learn to sew, I ...

Q. This foot-powered (treadle) sewing machine called "The Wanamaker." It was given to my mother in the early 1900s and is in good working condition. It includes the original wood cabinet and case. The ...

IF your parents didn’t use one, theirs probably did. Some people may still be using them — these sewing machines sold so well their inventor built one of the first skyscrapers in New York. He called ...

Q. While visiting the Smithsonian Institution, we saw our Elias J. Howe sewing machine. Only theirs did not have the beautiful mother-of-pearl inlay that ours has. We find three patent dates on ours — ...

to fashion fuzzy coats, couch covers and zippered pencil bags. I’d sit on the floor and watch as her feet deftly pedaled fast on the straightaway and then slowed as she rounded a curve or reached an ...

While visiting the Smithsonian Institution, we saw our Elias J. Howe sewing machine. Only theirs did not have the beautiful mother-of-pearl inlay that ours has. We find three patent dates on ours — ...

VOLANT — Amish women from Lawrence County are using their foot-powered treadle sewing machines to make masks for people all over the U.S. taking safety precautions against the coronavirus. Susan ...

MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Sew Old Antique and Vintage Sewing Machine Repair is run out of Maggie West’s home in Maryville. In West’s basement, her workspace houses a welded worktable and a collection of ...

After sitting idle for several decades, a nearly 100-year-old sewing machine has been put to good use during the COVID-19 pandemic.Giselle Williams' hairstyling and knitting businesses came to a ...