Sewing Machines
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An encyclopedia article on sewing machines from Appletons' Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics (1889). It traces the development of stitch-forming mechanisms (running, chain, double-loop, lock stitch), needles, shuttles, rotary hooks and the four-motion feed, then describes specific machines (Wheeler & Wilson, Wilson, New Home, White, Domestic, Willcox & Gibbs, Grover & Baker, Keats shoe-sewing machines), a buttonhole machine and Smyth's book-sewing machine. It closes with a section on sewing-machine attachments such as gauges, hemmers, rufflers, binders, braiders, tuck-markers and seam-trimmers. Illustrated with numbered engravings (Figs. 3830-3889).
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1889
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 20
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