My mother taught me how to sew when I was 10 years old. I wanted something fun and creative to fill my summer days. So, I ...

The flywheel, along with some old sewing machine parts becomes a treadle powered lathe. There’s something so very cathartic about seeing all the wood chiseled and sawed away. That pile of ...

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Pictured is my Singer treadle sewing machine dating to about 1901, previously my mother's and my grandmother's. Many inventors modified and improved sewing machines through the 1800s. Elias Howe ...

Colors. Prayer. Traditions. All are pieced into Noelle Benson’s star quilts. The native Dakotan and member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, her craft was encouraged by her older sister, Lisa, and ...

tuned and arranged on a revolving spindle impelled by a treadle, and the tips of the fingers being applied to the edges of the glasses produced the tones. It has always seemed to us that this ...

[Grow Your Own Clothes] had finally found their ideal sewing machine for doing zig-zag stitches (/\/\/\) and converting to a treadle drive (mechanically foot-fed) — a Singer 411G. This is a well ...

2, have semicircular grooves in their inner sides, and with corresponding grooves in the sections form apertures for receiving the pivot on the treadle and the crank of the shaft carrying the hand ...

Holland's first design: a 15.5-foot-long, one-man boat with a foot-operated treadle to drive the propeller, control the one-cubic-foot ballast tank, and discharge 'used' air. Finding sponsorship ...

Work hard and you will become rich. Your grandfather grew potatoes, and although I was busy at home, I sewed on a foot-treadle machine, made buttons, and weaved loose threads [did finishing work].

Treadle linkages use a rotary input to turn a crank on a fixed pivot. A connecting rod joins two moving pivots to another fixed pivot. This is how a pair of windscreen wipers works on a car ...

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