"The house-wife plies her needle and her thread, / Long after idle people are in bed; / The rent is…
"In the year 1589 the stocking-frame, the machine which mechanically produces the looped stitch in hosiery,…
A sewing machine is a textile machine used to stitch fabric or other material together with thread.…
In knitting, ribbing is a pattern in which vertical stripes of stockinette stitch alternate with vertical…
"a is the bobbin case; c, bobbin; b, thread wound on bobbin; d, projection from bobbin-case which keeps…
"a is the bobbin holder, partly opened to show hook b, and bobbin-case c; d, feed-points; e, presser-foot."…
A detail of the Wheeler and Wilson Sewing Machine. "s, thread-leader; t, face-plate covering...; v,…
"a, is the frame; b, shaft-crank which rocks the hook-shaft; e, receiving its motion from the double…