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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 ...

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 ...

Today, where the concept of “disruption” has become so popular in business, those developing apps and new startups can look to the Singer Sewing Machine as one of the original disruptive technologies.

In the early years of the 19th century, the invention of the sewing machine was all but inevitable. Factories were filling with seamstresses and tailors, and savvy inventors and entrepreneurs around ...

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 ...

The practical sewing machine is not the result of one man’s genius, but rather the culmination of a century of thought, work, trials, failures, and partial successes of a long list of inventors.

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A SIMPLE but unique toolkit devised by a Hampshire man is set to revolutionise sewing machine maintenance in povertystricken areas of Africa. Alan Busher’s invention is a big hit with bosses at the ...