Sewing Machine Eye Candy
Nothing significant about these, just a few machines that caught my eye...
"Mercedes". Perhaps these were made by, or imported into, Soviet bloc countries
during the cold war (The rather strange "East Europe" on this one would suggest this.)? This
picture was sent to me by the machine's owner, who found it in a rubbish heap in Athens, Greece. What a beauty!
A rarely seen (industrial) Singer 16K - note very long arm.
Photo courtesy ofThe Needlebar.
A friend's 1940 Singer 201. He says it runs like a champ!
A dance sister wanted me to find a home for this nice machine.
The above friend took it in!
His collection continues to grow with this White badged Japanese Class 15.
A coworker snapped this picture for me. An unknown industrial machine.
I don't know what it is - I'm guessing perhaps a Consew?
Mother-in-law's Kenmore, Sears model number 158.16012, which indicates it was made by Japan's
Maruzen (Changed to "Jaguar" in 1978) Sewing Machine company. Placed into a cabinet made by White.
A Kenmore that passed through my hands, Sears model number 158.13201 which makes it also
built by Maruzen/Jaguar Sewing Machine company in Japan. It was given to me, I cleaned
it up, cut down the ratty MDF cabinet to a table top base, and passed it on to a dance
sister in need of a machine.
With a name like "Tikka", you'd think it was Indian - but its actually Finnish!
Apparently made exclusively for export to the Soviet Union from the mid 1940s
to the mid 1960s. Note dual motive power. Photo courtesy of
Singer 185K. Photo courtesy Cory Zamora. This is basically a reskinned 99K.
My very own Bell and White and the
Singer Cabinet in a "Two Fisted Sewing" situation, making
little sequinned armbands for a Belly Dance costume.
And because I couldn't resist the "artistic shot", here's the same scene in the dark.
Slightly blurry yes, but I'll boast that it was handheld in the dark for a 4 second
exposure - that's what modern image stabilization can do!
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