[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 ...

To help fulfill the orders she was receiving, West traded in hand-sewing for a treadle sewing machine, which is powered mechanically by the operator pushing a pedal back and forth. West named her ...

when she restored an old Singer treadle. She now repairs at least one machine a week, and is involved with Hampshire charity, Tools For Self Reliance. The charity sends sewing machines to women ...

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Craig Murphy is unique among the members of the Sarnia Quilters Guild. “I’m the only male in it, and I’m also the only one that’s treadling,” he said while demonstrating a vintage foot ...