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2. Merrow Sewing Machine Company - Wikipedia

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   The Merrow Sewing Machine Company, best known for inventing the overlock sewing machine, is a manufacturer of sewing machines.After the explosion of his gunpowder mill in 1837, in 1838 J.M. Merrow built a knitting mill on the same site.

3. Overlock - Wikipedia

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   An overlock is a kind of stitch that sews over the edge of one or two pieces of cloth for edging, hemming, or seaming. Usually an overlock sewing machine will cut the edges of the cloth as they are fed through (such machines being called sergers in North America), though some are made without cutters. The inclusion of automated cutters allows ...

4. Elna (Swiss company) - Wikipedia

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   A free arm houses the machine's feeder and bobbin driver in a tubular arm-shaped bed, enabling material to be wrapped around the mechanism during sewing rather than simply resting on top of it. A free arm greatly simplifies sewing tasks like darning and hemming on delicate fabrics and difficult-to-reach seams—uses for which Elna was heavily ...

5. Joseph M. Merrow - Wikipedia

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   Joseph Merrow was the driving force behind Merrow developing new technology, growing the new business and transforming it from a regional supplier of crochet sewing machines, to the market leader manufacturing hundreds of models of industrial overlock sewing machines.

6. Bernina International - Wikipedia

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   Bernina International AG is a privately owned international manufacturer of sewing and embroidery systems. The company was founded in Steckborn, Switzerland, and develops, manufactures, and sells goods and services for the textile market, primarily household sewing-related products in the fields of embroidery, quilting, home textiles, garment sewing, and crafting.

7. Sewing machine - Wikipedia

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   This crochet machine was the first production overlock sewing machine. The Merrow Machine Company went on to become one of the largest American manufacturers of overlock sewing machines and remains in the 21st century as the last American over-lock sewing machine manufacturer.