The centuries-old craft historically served as a form of visual language and cultural identity, with specific patterns and colors indicating the wearer’s regional origin, social ranking and marital ...

We've focused on the best sewing machines for beginners and tested models from Brother, Janome, Singer, John Lewis and more, including budget options costing less than £100. We enlisted the help of ...

For much of the nineteenth century, inventors submitted a model with their patent application to the United States Patent Office. The National Museum of American History’s patent model collection ...

Abstract: To resolve the problem of low accuracy and difficulty in detecting threads, this paper proposes a method of detecting based on machine vision. The image of the threaded part is collected ...

Since retiring from teaching about six years ago, Richard Wagner has repaired roughly 40 sewing machines and donated them to Afghan refugees.