If you remember your grandmother using a Singer sewing machine, you're not alone. This iconic brand has been part of the foundation of home sewing for more than a century and a half. Although ...

Singer sewing machines fall into the latter group. While plenty of antique sewing machines exist ... Hand crank model with a treadle, look on the throat plate or bed of the machine.

THE PIECE: A vintage treadle sewing machine by the Singer Manufacturing Co., from about 1890 THE OWNER: Marenthia Lagarde of New Orleans recently bought this vintage sewing machine because it ...

A lovely treadle-based Singer in an oak cabinet might sell for less than $100; tabletop portable models would bring less. A very few models of antique sewing machines are highly sought after in ...

(AP) — Sew Old Antique and Vintage Sewing Machine ... West traded in hand-sewing for a treadle sewing machine, which is powered mechanically by the operator pushing a pedal back and forth.

One of the most revolutionary inventions to save time, and work was the sewing machine. The Butte-Silver Bow Archives has opened a new exhibit showcasing antique ... s a White Treadle Coffin ...

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 ...