Many inventors modified and improved sewing machines through the 1800s. Elias Howe and Isaac Merritt Singer are credited with the foot treadle and these machines became very popular. On the ...

Sewing thread has gone through many changes ... New threads are developed to accommodate machine embroidery, quilting and other functions as well. Knowing some of the history of thread can help in ...

1846: Elias Howe patents the first practical sewing machine and threads his way into the fabric of history. French tailor Barthelemy Thimonnier patented a device in 1830 that mechanized the ...

In the early years of the 19th century, the invention of the sewing machine was all but inevitable. Factories were filling with seamstresses and tailors, and savvy inventors and entrepreneurs ...

Katrina Stockton’s Sewing History Museum will open Friday in the Chapman-Noble House in historic Midtown. The museum’s collection of more than 400 sewing machines date from the mid-1800s and ...