You need an industrial sewing machine. While you might find a domestic ... I’ve made a lot of bags from old shower curtains and tablecloths with pretty good success, but I want to do more ...

Modern domestics can do light-duty work, but they can’t handle making bags and upholstery or sewing a bunch of layers of any material together. Industrial machines have either clutch or servo ...

but it is employed in making small bags for grocers. An improvement on this machine was made for sewing umbrellas, but it has never been successfully introduced. Still, as these served to suggest ...

The company was facing stiff competition from low-priced imports and a general decline in sewing machine sales, and soon only industrial sewing machines were being made at the plant. In 1982 ...

Scott Loeser, who lives in Minneapolis’ Uptown neighborhood, is using “marked” leather to create heirloom-quality satchels and tote bags ... to bring back industrial sewing skills ...