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A rare Gem-brand sewing machine produced by the White Sewing Machine Company, circa 1887. A sewing machine is a machine used to stitch fabric and other materials together with thread. [1] Sewing machines were invented during the first Industrial Revolution to decrease the amount of manual sewing work performed in clothing companies. [2]
Frister & Rossmann was founded in 1864 in Berlin by Gustav Rossmann and Robert Frister. [2] [3]The UK importer was sued by the Singer company in 1883. [4]The company became Germany's largest sewing machine manufacturer, until 1902.
The first machine to combine all the disparate elements of the previous half-century of innovation into the modern sewing machine was the device built by English inventor John Fisher in 1844, a little earlier than the very similar machines built by Isaac Merritt Singer in 1851, and the lesser known Elias Howe, in 1845. However, due to the ...
PFAFF was founded in Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 1862 by instrument maker Georg Michael Pfaff (1823–1893). Pfaff's first machine was handmade, and designed to sew leather in the manufacture of shoes.
The spread of sewing machine technology to industrialized economies around the world meant the spread of Western-style sewing methods and clothing styles as well. In Japan, traditional clothing was sewn together with running stitch that could be removed so that the clothing could be taken apart and the assorted pieces laundered separately.
The Leader Sewing Machine Company produced sewing machines from 1870 to 1899 or thereabout. [ 1 ] The base of operations shows as 479 to 497 Case Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio [ 2 ] and 1115 Olive Street, St Louis, Montana USA on some 1884 and other Victorian trade cards and 1885 envelopes traded on eBay.
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