Happy “National Sewing Machine Day”!
Did you know that…
- “before the invention of the sewing machine, tailors and sewists [seamstresses] created clothing by hand, one stitch at a time”?
- “the invention of the sewing machine brought about revolutionary change”?
- many men, such as Thomas Saint, William Newton Wilson, Walter Hunt, John Greenough, Isaac Singer, and Elias Howe, invented various kinds of sewing machines — going all the way back to 1790?
- “industrial use of the sewing machine reduced the burden placed on housewives, moving clothing production from them and seamstresses to large-scale factories?” [Because I don’t like much of what these “large-scale factories” (especially those located overseas) are putting out these days, I’m going to be putting MY sewing machine to work as I start making my own clothes again.]
- “quilters across America [of which I am one] are also known as sewing machine experts” AND that not all quilters use sewing machines?
Well… According to the folks at nationaldaycalendar.com, all of these are true!