Sewing

If your serial number starts with a 385 or 158 prefix, check at managemyhome.com. If it's 148 or 117, you are probably out of luck as far as free goes and will need to check with second market sellers. One of these is sewusa.com and you will sometimes find manuals at ebay.

First you take some sort of thread, whether it be wool, silk, cotton, or nylon (acrylic), then you weave it.

In weaving, you stretch a bunch of threads up and down, (they are called warp threads) Then you take another piece of thread and weave it under and over the warp threads and you end up with fabric.

You can make a small piece of fabric yourself. See the link I have provided.

The yarns of a fabric that stand up or out from the weave. As in carpet, velvet or flannel

It is hard to put a true date on when the loom or weaving machine was invented.

There is evidence of cloth being made in Mesopotamia and in Turkey as far back as 7000 to 8000. Wool was accessible in Egypt, as well, but was considered a fiber of the lower classes, namely, herdsmen and farmers. Cloth made from wool was thought to be crude and irreverent. Fabric made with cotton was much more acceptable and has been found in Egyptian tombs.

The earliest power loom was probably invented by Edmund Cartwright in 1785.

Joseph Marie Jacquard invented a mechanical loom in 1801, that was programmed with punched cards to weave complex patterns.

Successful power looms were in operation in England by the early 1800s, to improve on American output Francis Cabot Lowell spied on the new British textile industry. The British drawings or a model of a power loom, so he memorized the workings of British power looms.

With Paul Moody he recreated and develop an adaptation of the British design.

Early machines used the pedal as power. Th operator would pedal in order to make the machine sew. In modern machines in control the sewing action by stopping and starting and controlling the rate.

Embroidery can be dated back to 30,000 BC. (in an archaeological find, fossilized remains of heavily hand-stitched and decorated clothing were found). Chinese thread embroidery dates back to 3500 B.C.

The earliest machine embroidery was a combination of machine looms and hand embroidery (done by teams of women) in France in the mid-1800s.

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A sewing 'kit' maybe...:)

Madras Patchwork fabric is fabric made of patches of Madras plaid fabric. Madras plaid fabric is pure cotton fabric woven in the city of Madras,India, and is known for its bleeding qualities and softness making it ideal wear for summers. The patchwork madras fabric is patch-work stitching formed into a fabric,where the 'base' fabric is madras plaid cottons. More on how it is made: 1. The base fabrics need to be chosen/woven first.These can be ready fabrics in different Madras check patterns/colors. 2.Once the base fabrics are in hand, the designers make color-combinations of 3,4,6 or even 15 checks/plaids in different colors, in order to give the completed fabric its signature pattern. 3.After the color/check patterns are chosen,its time to cut the individual fabrics into strips according to the size of checks required.Most patchwork madras fabric is available in 3x3 inch checks.Which means that the fabric is cut into 3 inch width strips along the entire length of the fabric. 4.These strips (assuming 3 inches in width and of the length equal to the entire length of the fabric in yards) are then loaded on to motorised sewing machines operated by women workers of India,who are untrained masters of sewing despite never having read a book on sewing or crafts,or even ever having seen a sewing pattern. Once loaded on to the machines, these fabric strips are then stiched onto the other fabric strips of different colors/patterns chosen to make the entire design pattern originally decided upon by the fabric designer. Regardless of the stitching method used,the fabric looks almost the same on the front & back of the fabric. It is fabric that is made of small squares of plaid fabric that are sewn together to make one larger piece of fabric. This site shows a pic of some shorts made from patchwork madras fabric: http://www.amazon.com/Izod-Patchwork-Madras-Plaid-Shorts/dp/B000P8AK3E

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I am going to offer my somewhat educated opinion on this ... for my "credentials" I will just say that I have owned both a baby lock serger and a brother serger and I work in the "sewing industry" on a national level so I have used a lot of different types of machines and can compare them for similarities and differences by using them.

My opinion is that the two are not "related". For one thing the two sergers have never struck me as similar when using them. I never once thought that they might be made by the same manufacturer whereas I do think that about my Brother serger and another high end serger that has a totally different name on it. I suspect that this is the kind of information that is available to the public if they choose to dig a little bit. I don't really care about it ... if the machine is a nice machine then it's a nice machine! It can be nice to know that your $200 machine is made by a company that makes $1000 machines as well ... but it could also lead you to believe that you have the inferior machine. I don't think that inexpensive necessarily means inferior. I have been very happy with my Brother machines, both sergers and sewing machines. A skilled seamstress can do just as beautiful work with an old straight stitch Singer as she can on a 2007 top o'the line machine! That too is my educated opinion! Hope it helps.

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I would like to add that while Brother and BabyLock sergers don't seem to match up, their sewing machines are IDENTICAL!

It's kind of like Riccar and Simplicty with their vacuums. Some of their models match up piece by piece and others are very similar but look completely different.

1 - The speed of production. Although it takes time to design the embroidery and digitize it, ultimately if you have a large run of embroidery to do it is a lot quicker 2 - Accuracy. If you have a really detailed design you need reproduced accurately, with a computerized machine it will reproduce it perfectly everytime, whereas by hand each one will naturally differ. Unless of course you are designing for a less commercial market where you want each piece to differ slightly to give a more bespoke feel.

If the table is 36" round, I'm assuming you are talking about diameter. I would simply get the same length as the width of the fabric you want to use. Then the drape will be the same....

I looked and it depends on the model name, and in some cases the serial number. What condition it is in is very important.

Most of the time, it is threaded wrong or the bobbin is in backwards. The best bet is to rethread from the spool and also check to see how the bobbin is put back in it's case. Check the manual that came with the machine. If you don't have the manual you can find it probably online. Also, check that the needle is inserted correctly and also that it is in all the way. Clean out the bobbin area and be sure the thread is not getting stuck on the spool as it is coming off. Sometimes there is a burr on the spool and it catches as it is going into the machine.

Embroidery, and crewel, use coloured treads, yarns and ribbons to decorate fabric. Quilting and aplique use coloured fabrics and stitchery to create decorated fabric pieces. Dye and paint can be used to create designs, pictures or solid colour treatments to decorate fabric. Beading works well to add subtle decorations while studding and be-jewling are flashier.

It really depends on where you are and how easily they are to get in the area you live. If you buy at auction you can still get them for between $25.00 and $100.00 where I live in Pennsylvania, USA. In an antique shop you'll pay between $150.00 and about $250.00 depending on the cabinet wood condition and how elaborate the woodwork is and if the machine condition still retaines the original decals and emblems. The closer to the machine and cabinet is to original condition (not striped and repainted) will add to the value.

The Brother CS6000i Computerized Sewing Machine would be the best sewing machine for a beginner. This machine gets 5 stars on amazon and has had several positive reviews. This sewing machine is very easy to use and the manual is easy to read. It is computerized, automatic, and has a light for the best viewing.

It depends on the condition of the machine, the serial number, and the brand.

A good rule of thumb: If it looks anything like what you've sewn with (or your mom or grandmother), or it has a serial number with 6 or more numbers, it is likely of very little value to sewing machine collectors.

Any early sewing machine by any maker with a serial # of 5,000 or less is worth more. Lower serial numbers by lesser-known brands are even more valuable. For example, there is a Bradbury Limited 1879 sewing machine with a low serial number on eBay right now for $5,000. There is also a vintage Singer 11-20 for sale for $3,500.

So, take a look at your sewing machine's brand and serial number, and check eBay to see if there is something comparable. You may also want to consult an antique dealer after finding this information.

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a great lil tutorial i found...

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=13016

Im not 100% sure but my manual was printed in 1980

Technically, thread count means the number of threads woven together in a square inch. You count both lengthwise (warp) and widthwise (weft) threads. So 100 lengthwise threads woven with 100 widthwise threads produce a thread count of 200.Â_