I fell into sewing leather at 15 when home economics class only had an industrial machine left as the girls grabbed the light machines to work on. I had been sewing with my mom, grandma and aunt ...

As the leader of the sewing machine industry, the Singer Company introduced the first practical sewing machine powered by an ...

A small female-led family firm has said it is "surreal" to have grown into industry leaders in sewing work for commercial and ...

Pacheco, 48, says he grew up in Fall River and has been doing commercial sewing machine repair and service work his entire adult life since graduating Durfee High School, ...

These commercial sewing machines were built in Orson C. Phelps’s machine shop in Boston. The head, base cams, and gear wheels of the machine were made of cast iron; to fit together, these parts had to ...

The pleasant hum of a sewing machine fills a busy work space in Johnston Square, just off the corner of Greenmount Avenue and Preston Street. It’s an industrial sound that once reverberated all ...

I’ve been sewing off and on since I was a kid, and I really started to get into it about ten years ago. Even though I technically outgrew my little 3/4 size domestic machine pretty quickly, I ...