A sewing machine is, obviously enough, “a machine that sews,” but if you think about those words literally, it can help you figure out how it works. Let’s say we had a big construction set with standard, snap-together, engineering components in it; which bits would we need to make a sewing machine? The answer is surprisingly few.
Although you can still find the odd hand-powered sewing machine (and you can operate any machine slowly by hand if you want to for slow, precision work), virtually all modern sewing machines are electric. They’re built around quite hefty electric motors (roughly the same size as the ones you find in vacuum cleaners and lawn mowers). Pushing a tiny little needle up and down through multiple layers of thick fabric is hard to work, and lifting and feeding the fabric takes effort as well. If you’ve ever seen something like a pair of curtains, you’ll know it can be quite exhausting turning and moving the fabric, but a sewing machine helps you do that job as well.
Way back a long, people would gather in close circles in their homes and sew garments with their hands. Their work illuminated only by flickering candlelight. They darned socks made christening gowns from scratch, sewed buttonholes, embroidered beautiful designs onto the edges of collars and onto the pockets of aprons. The construction of clothing had been changed forever. And so had the lives of the housewives, children and servants who had been depended upon to create the bulk of a family’s essential wardrobe items.
There is something astonishing, even magical about sewing with your hands. Most tools of the trade are tiny but effective. Little thimbles that fit over the fatty parts of your fingers to keep them from bleeding. Needle eyes and points of various sizes and widths, each combination made for sliding easily in and out of a specific type of material. Thin ribbons of thread that you double knot at the end and pull through a tiny ball of wax to keep it smooth. And free of twists when it travels through the surface of your cloth.
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Shruti
May 30, 2019What is the difference between lock-stitch domestic sewing machine and the high-speed lock-stitch sewing machine?
kola
May 30, 2019Hello Shruti,
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Industrial machines is made to do one stitch/operation and do it very well at a higher rate of speed than domestic machines. So – a commercial workplace might have a buttonhole machine, a twin needle hemming machine, a lockstitch machine (or several), and possibly one that will make a stretch stitch, depending on what is being made at that location.
Each machine will probably have one person doing one step over & over at a high rate of speed, then passing the garments to someone else to do the next step, until the garment(s) have run through all the steps and machines needed to finish them. No changes are made to the settings of the machines during the process because the machine is not built to have the settings changed, it is set to do whatever is needed for that step and only what is needed to do that step – and to do it fast.
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