Sewing machines of yore by goodoleboy
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Captured 5/1/16, at the beautiful Victorian Fair, held on the beautiful grounds of the beautiful Homestead Museum in beautiful City of Industry, California.
You, your mother, grandmother, aunt, great grandmother and/or great aunt, et al, may have used one of these productive pre-electical homestead devices in the past. I know my mom used a Singer, which I didn't see among this bunch. A ZOOM will reveal some of their names.
Postwork was required here to balance these pics out of their deep high contrast and shadow effects.
Comments (7)
Cyve
WOW my friend... What a marvelous collection and a very fantastic machines !!!
npauling
Gosh these even pre-date me though I did use one of these when I was in school. Singer came out with the treadle sewing machine after these which was what I used in high school. Thank goodness the power ones came out as I was hopeless with a treadle. I would be sewing along nicely when suddenly it would go in reverse if you got out of rhythm. Great captures.
beachzz
A wonderful collection of sewing machines. I've sewn with a treadle, but never one of these hand crankers. i bought a fancy new one several years ago and hated it so much I dragged my mom's old Singer back out. It goes front and back and that's it and I love it!
Hendesse
What a fantastic collection of old sewing machines. This will warm the heart of any antiques dealer. Excellent photographs!
UteBigSmile
I got a old one from my granny, it was a SINGER
helanker
Such beautiful old sewing machine drived by hand. We had such but it wasnt preserved properly, so it looked awful.
MrsRatbag
They are so beautiful, with the gold scrollwork painted on them; I learned to sew on an old Singer, no foot treadle but probably one of the first electric foot pedal machines. Super shots of this array of lovely old machines!