eye-pointed needle, to make a lock stitch, and the mechanism for feeding the cloth. During the so-called "sewing machine war" of the 1850s, rival manufacturers seemed to be more interested in ...
A standard sewing machine uses two threads: one that unwinds from a spool on top of the machine and goes through the needle, and one that comes from a tiny spool, called the bobbin, underneath (it ...
Andrea was running a seam up a long blue skirt on the sewing machine. Stowe's little Yorkie, Lolly, watched the activity from her crate near a table. "When the girls are sewing, she stays in there ...