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| My husband coordinating with the blue machines and purple fabrics |
No particular order here. The over whelmingness I felt faced with nearly a thousand machines, many, many of them set up ready for test sewing, will become apparent.
Here we go. The operating hours can be erratic, this is the creation of one man who was having his lunch in his truck when we arrived but who helpfully told us where the hidden key was so we let ourselves in.
The entry arch, made from salvaged machines from a landfill
Wall art made from flywheels.
Do you recognize these? Some more wall art made from throat plates
Such neat and tidy industrial design
A well known name in industrial machines this time in a domestic model, beautiful metal dials and some zippy mid century modern detailing
Amazing the number of different sewing machine manufacturers
An accessory cupboard
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| Love the colour and the presentation |
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| Neck really seemed to play around with alternate ideas, note here the work area is on the inside of the machine |
Theses rotating throat plates for different stitches in the Necchi machines are crazy but interesting
An industrial leather machine
Industrial embroidery machine
A tiny white featherweight in the room of children's machines
Another child's machine
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And another one, note the care in display |
My heart stopped when I saw this.
When I was 8 years old our neighbour across the street gave me one exactly like this - she had brought it with her from Czechoslovakia. It made a chain stitch, no bobbin, and was held to the kitchen table (Formica) with one of my dad's vices from the garage. I turned the handle and poured out a ton of doll clothes that I sold to the neighbourhook kids for a nickel or a dime until the local mothers marched down and shut down my sweatshop.
It made a very nice stitch.
A baby treadle
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One of the delights of the museum is the care in presentation. Here a row of pink machines on a pink shelf |
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| The blue wall, my favourite |
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| A lovely lady who came a very long way for my class. |
9 comments:
Simply beautiful. I've sewn on a few of those models through the years.
That black dress you're wearing in the last photo is perfection! What pattern is it?
Really fun to look at all of that, and you look fantastic!
Sydney Brown
Time for a visit to my brothers in Tulsa! This looks like a wonderful place!
Carol Lee in Wisconsin
Love your photos of the Museum, thank you so much, for sharing!
Thank you for such a lovely article about our Museum!! We love it and learn something new during every visit. The “M” as we call it also has a Facebook page if you would like to check it out!!
I learned to sew on my mum's Necchi Supernova machine that she bought in the late 50s. It had one of those rotating foot plates, but I don't recall ever rotating it.
Wow! Oh wow! What a fabulous museum! That Necchi is most intriguing. Thanks for sharing.
I learned to sew on that same chain stitch Singer. It also was my mother's first sewing machine. It was generally clamped to the picnic table in the back yard and I also churned out many, many Barbie outfits. I wasn't enterprising enough, though, to sell them to my friends. ;)
Lois K
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