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A rare Gem-brand sewing machine produced by the White Sewing Machine Company, circa 1887 A sewing machine is a machine used to stitch fabric and other materials together with thread . [ 1 ] Sewing machines were invented during the first Industrial Revolution to decrease the amount of manual sewing work performed in clothing companies.
A new sewing machine factory was opened in 2012 in Đồng Nai province, Vietnam, which is the largest single-brand sewing machine factory in the world. [12] In September 2012, Brother Industries manufactured their 50 millionth home sewing machine. [4] [13] In May 2017, Brother Industries manufactured their 60 millionth home sewing machine.
The Jones Sewing Machine Company was a British manufacturer of sewing machines founded in 1860 by William Jones and Thomas Chadwick under the name Chadwick and Jones, which later became known as the Jones Sewing Machine Company. The company produced sewing machines for almost 100 years, before being acquired by Brother Industries in 1968.
A Capitalist Romance: Singer and the Sewing Machine (Lippincott, 1977). Davies, Robert Bruce. Peacefully Working to Conquer the World: Singer Sewing Machines in Foreign Markets, 1854–1920 (Arno Press, 1976). Godley, Andrew. "The Global Diffusion of the Sewing Machine, 1850–1914". Research in Economic History 20#1 (2001): 1–46. Godley, Andrew.
VSM Group AB (Viking Sewing Machines), previously named Husqvarna Sewing Machines is a company based in Huskvarna, Sweden. Founded in 1872, the company is best known for "smart" (computerized) sewing machines and sergers under the brands Husqvarna Viking and Pfaff .
White Sewing Machine Company manufactured automobiles, trucks, buses and agricultural machinery White Sewing Machine Company 1941 company book. The White Sewing Machine Company was a sewing machine company founded in 1858 in Templeton, Massachusetts, by Thomas H. White and based in Cleveland, Ohio, since 1866.
The founder's firstborn son, Jacob Pfaff, died in 1889. His daughter, Lina Pfaff, took over the company in 1917 when her brother Georg died and ran it successfully on a global scale until 1926. Her nephew, Karl Pfaff, took over the company when she retired at the age of seventy-two. [4] It made its one-millionth machine in 1910.
Frister & Rossmann was founded in 1864 in Berlin by Gustav Rossmann and Robert Frister. [2] [3]The UK importer was sued by the Singer company in 1883. [4]The company became Germany's largest sewing machine manufacturer, until 1902.