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"Style No. 14" puzzle box. A Singer puzzle box is a collection of accessories for a sewing machine. Produced by the Singer Manufacturing Company during the 19th and 20th centuries, these neat and compact kits provide supplies and attachments for easing many common sewing tasks. At the time they were called 'Style' boxes, and were numbered ...
The image labeled "Braider Foot" shows not a Braider Foot, but a Foot Hemmer. In later years these were also called "Rolled Hemmer" and "Narrow Hemmer" or even "Hemmer Foot", although in the context of an 1880's to early 20th century Singer Attachment Case "Puzzle Box", the term "Hemmer Foot" does refer to the adapter onto which are installed the various width Hemmers and the Binder.
A sewing machine presser foot. A presser foot is an attachment used with sewing machines to hold fabric flat as it is fed through the machine and stitched. Sewing machines have feed dogs in the bed of the machine to provide traction and move the fabric as it is fed through the machine, while the sewer provides extra support for the fabric by guiding it with one hand.
Most lockstitch machines made after the 1960s are capable of doing this; older machines achieve the same stitch with a specialist presser foot which moves the fabric beneath the stationary needle. Zigzag stitches are used when a stretchable stitch is required, such as when sewing stretchy fabrics.
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Older sewing machines designed to sew only a straight stitch can be adapted to sew a zigzag by means of an attachment. The attachment replaces the machine's presser foot with its own, and draws mechanical power from the machine's needle clamp (which requires the needle clamp to have a side-facing thumbscrew).
The buttonholer's adaptor attaches to the machine's presser bar, replacing the presser foot. In its place the buttonholer employs a cloth clamp with teeth on the underside to hold the material firmly whilst manipulating the cloth side to side and forwards and backwards.
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