Treadle sewing machines work as well as electric models, if not better …. without electricity. They’re also inexpensive, $10.00 to $40.00 (I bought mine for $25.00, in good shape). With proper care ...
Antiques oftentimes have rich, personal history attached to them. That’s what Jeremiah Benton and his father Eugene discovered as they carefully unwrapped a 1926 Franklin treadle sewing machine that ...
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 and ...