[Grow Your Own Clothes] had finally found their ideal sewing machine for doing zig-zag stitches (/\/\/\) and converting to a treadle drive (mechanically foot-fed) — a Singer 411G. This is a well ...

Pictured is my Singer treadle sewing machine dating to about 1901, previously my mother's and my grandmother's. Many inventors modified and improved sewing machines through the 1800s. Elias Howe ...

Sewing machines are complex beasts ... this might historically have had a hand crank or pulley for a treadle or external motor to power the sewing. It serves to allow the operator to manually ...

My Mom had five sewing machines: (1) the Singer/Wheeler-Wilson treadle-operated one she used until she bought her (2) ...

The crank shaft can be revolved either by working the treadle with the feet or by means of the rod. In case the machine is not provided with this pitman, a bar is clamped on the usual pitman near ...