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I I ' THE NEEDLE AND THE SEWING MACHINE....
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Yet More Far Ancient From Having Than Ev...
I I ori It was inal not patent howev that er , until Sewing six Machines years after were the taking brought out into of the the
1 I learnt market g by for experi sale , , ence but by the that great tim advantages e the Messrs to . be Thomas derived having from established
to ufactory substituting l for ing the m th achine em construction to -work others for engaged of hand Sewing -labour in Machines sim , ilar trades , with to a a man their view
-! own supp and y they were soon so generally adopted that this branch gaged of their , and business the firm outgrew are now that better in which known they to were the public originall at y large
enwhen as Mach ' , in ine 1860 Manufacturers their patent , exp than ired as anything tlie inventio - else n . becam Of course e in a ,
great , measure , open to public competition , , but as subsequent improvements Thomas himself h , av and e been others still introduced purchased retai , some their by him effected from eminen b those y Mr who . and IT .
thoug be devised b h oth the them er machines makers , this who firm met often with confine in families n themselves are frequentl pre- to the y construc found ce , to
tion y of this smaller , kindand offer them at lower prices , it private in is seldom use in or manufactories that trade any purposes done but those ; , theirs and whatever , of they the still Messrs can affirm be . done Thomas , that by ' whether any s are sewing found for
machine Let us , see can now be what by it isthat . it is offered as so great a boon bearin chine to the g manufacturers public a strong by this famil . earliest y Among likeness , and , a and most adornment multitude all ex made tensive of from on of machines one Sewing the princi beauti , Ma p all le - ,
full but vary inlaid ing and in size decorated , strength iece , and of fanmechanism , with which - tak the e y lad the y of air ran on k her may delicate amuse p hi herself gh-bred in cy her steed boudoir to the , as larg she e would solid
which to substan the do " tial . Domestic the objects cart-horse , Friend not work ill , " -looking the of family large either manufactories machine , , after , intended their ; we kind turn for ,
private use or for persons in small businesses ; in fact , the s scroll trong -work but com of iron ely behin cob " d of the the intricacies stud . A of light which and may elegant be
traced a wheel connected , with a treadleis surmounted by a small wheel table from -top which of polished runs out wood half , near one along , end the of length which is of fixed the
table over a , it a long above narrow from stage which below , descends , and way a wh crfrved at—in " arm desp " ite bending of ail
anatomical technicall propriety termed , a as " foot well . " as In the a anal slide ogy at of the hand extremity -work— of is
which the arm is passed y is placed a thread a long proceeding slender needle from a , reel throug at h the the top eye , first of anoth
drawn through several rings . A portion of thread from er
I I ' The Needle And The Sewing Machine....
I ' THE NEEDLE AND THE SEWING MACHINE . 79
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1864, page 79, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041864/page/7/
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