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Welcome to the NeedleBar Web Site!

The NeedleBar is an international group of enthusiastic vintage and antique sewing machine collectors, who also have an interest in researching the history of these fascinating items and their makers.

The pages on this site contain the results of some of the research projects undertaken and information collected by the NeedleBar group.

Alan Quinn

NeedleBar Administrator

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(we have more than ** 6,250 ** properly indexed, easy to navigate pictures to help you identify your machines!)

 

The NeedleBar Pictorial Identification Guide to Singer Machines!

There are currently pictures of 128 separate Domestic Singer models in our Guide!

Click HERE for the Main Singer Guide Menu.

Note: In the guide click on the thumbnails for large pictures and written information about the models. There are 3 pages of thumbnails of Singer domestic machines.

Select Page 1, 2 or 3 at the bottom of each page in the Gallery.


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MAIN NEEDLEBAR SITE INDEX

For discussion and information about antique and vintage sewing machines visit:

The NeedleBar Forum

Membership and Registration is free

 

Guides to the Sewing Machines & Makers of :

Britain  | Germany  | USA

Canada  | Australia  | France | Japan

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Articles about British Sewing Machines :

The Machines of W.J Harris

A Comparison of Bradbury Soeze & Family VS Machines

The Ideal Sewing Machine Company

The British Lion

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Articles about Australian Sewing machines

The Pinnock Sewing Machine Company

Hugo Wertheim Importer and Piano maker

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Articles about Swiss Sewing machines

Elna Machines - Tavaro SA Geneva

Elna Machine article - Version Française

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Articles about German Sewing Machines:

The NeedleBar Guide to German Makers' Logos

A Comprehensive Guide to Baer & Rempel Machines

The NeedleBar Guide to Frister & Rossmann Machines

German Sewing Machine Attachment Tins

Guide to German Transverse Shuttle Machines :

Part One - High-arm Rectangular-based Machines

Part Two - High-arm Fiddle-based Machines

Part Three - Low-arm Fiddle-based Machines

Part Four - Makers of Saxonia-type Machines

 

 

 

SINGER STUFF

Identifying Singer Machines:

Basic Singer Identification

Main Singer Identification Gallery

Detailed Identification Guides :

Singer's Vibrating Shuttle Machines

Singer's Model 15 Machines

Singer's Model 24 Machines

Singer 9W Machines

Other Singer Information :

Singer Decals

Cabinets

Attachment Boxes

Singer Industrial Machine Production

Articles about Singer Machines:

Singer's Ottoman Carnation Decals

Singer's Indian Star Decals

Early Development of the Model 12

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Articles about American Machines :

Standard Sewing Machine Company :

The Standard Rotary

Dating Standard Machines

Johnson, Clark & Company :

The Home Shuttle

 

 

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Information About:

Conservation & Restoration

Restoring a Singer 29K13 (.doc format 4.2Mb)

Electrolytic Cleaning

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General Information:

The Humble Needle

Recognising Shuttle Types

Bobbin Winder Instructions

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NeedleBar Occasional Articles

Articles mainly from 19th and early 20th Century sewing machine trade publications

Who Invented the Sewing Machine? (1867)

Sewing Machines and Eccentricity (1877)

A Letter from Brussels (1877)

International Snippets (1886)

Woodwork Polish Recipe (1886)

Extract from an I. M. Singer letter (1863)

Whitehill and Singer, an extract from James Bolton's diary

How Singer Sewing Machines are Numbered (1906)

Sewing Machines (1859)

The Mechanical Chameleon - Sex and the Sewing Machine in Ninteenth Century France (1998)

Confiscated Sewing Machines (1917)

An Invisible Stitch Machine (1902)

Comments on Cheap Machines (1886)

The Queen of Servia (1886)

The Announcement of Kimball & Morton's 'Lion' machine (1902)

The Davis Vertical Feed Machine (1882)

Turning Vickers Guns into Sewing Machines (1918)

The Death of Mr Greist (1906)

The Letter G (1864)

The Death of Charles Bradbury (1918)

 

 

 

 


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