Category: Vintage sewing machines

Sewing is an art that dates back at least twenty thousand years. Originally, sewing was a bone needle and animal sinew affair. It was not until the 14th century that iron needles came onto the...

Vintage sewing machines are sewing machines that have been around for at least forty years, but not more than a hundred, as that would make them antiques. Vintage sewing machines are some of the best...

First of all, we need to put into perspective what the word antique means. Antique referrers to a centenarian or an item that is at least 100 years old! That means it must have been made in the 19th...

There is definitely a market for old sewing machines. There are basically two ways to sell an old sewing machine. The first allows sellers to determine a price and sell directly to clients. Secondly,...

Vintage Bernina sewing machines are the products of a Swiss family-owned manufacturing company that stretches back four generations, where the well-known Swiss inventor Karl Friedrich Gegauf created...

Elna sewing machines were the brainchild of Dr. Ramon Casas Robert, a Spanish engineer. Due to the Spanish civil war, he was forced to emigrate to Switzerland, where he sold his patent to a company...