Author: | K. Kiri & S. Kalmakoff |
Publisher: | South Pacific Appropriate Technology Foundation (SPATF), P.O. Box 6937, Boroko, Papua New Guinea. |
Format: | Paperback. B&W. & microfiche. |
Date: | March, 1979 (1st Edition) |
Pages: | 63 |
Very clear, concise and comprehensive maintenance and repair instructions aimed at sewers in Papua New Guinea, where parts shops are rarer that hens’ dentists (“How to make a tension release pin from a nail” etc.). Information delightfully divided between “some machines” (Singer 15) and “other machines” (66/201), but plenty of “if your parts look like this, do this…”. Illustrations drawn from Singer and Janome manuals. Remarkably thorough. |
Author: | F.B. Wright and Harold Clough (originally, Professor Byron B. Robb) |
Publisher: | New York State College of Agriculture (Cornell University). Cornell Extension Bulletin 815 |
Format: | Paperback |
Date: | Revised 1956 |
Pages: | 63 |
Cover shows a woman confidently adjusting her Featherweight. Simple maintenance for American machines from 1890-1930s. Seems to be an expanded update of ‘Sewing Machines – Cleaning and Adjusting’ (see below), including a useful interchangeable needle list and how to sharpen needles. |
Author: | Reuben O. Doyle |
Publisher: | Privately published |
Format: | 11” x 8”, B&W illustrations, sold by online download |
Pages: | 85 |
Care, maintenance and use of treadle machines, with generic information pertinent to a wide range of models (including hand-wound). Sound, clear advice on basic tension setting, oiling, timing the shuttle etc. – and a good chapter on the ruffler. See also: “Sewing Machine Repair For The Home Sewer!” & 'Serger Repair for the Home Sewer' by the same author. |
Author: | Howard Hutchison |
Publisher: | Tab Books, Blue Ridge Summit, P.A. |
Format: | Paperback |
Date: | 1980 |
Pages: | 308 |
Essentially for modern machines. It dismisses treadles in an introductory paragraph and everything else pre-1960 in the following two pages. Then it’s onto a limited range of zigzag models (New Home, Brother, White & Pfaff). If these machines are what you’re after, then the service and repair information is excellent, with plenty of clear illustrations. |
Author: | Karen E. Kunkel |
Publisher: | Sterling Publishing Co. Inc. (Cassell plc in UK) |
Format: | Paperback, hardback. Colour |
Date: | 1997 (hardback) |
Pages: | 160pp |
ISBN: | 0-8069-0848-3 |
For owners – and prospective owners - of modern machines and a good ‘next step up’ from the instruction manual. Good advice throughout for sewers, explaining the capabilities and operation of the latest models - decorative zigzag stitching, darning, embroidery, etc. and a fresh approach to explaining those attachments. |
Author: | Werner Schwartz (Technical Director |
Publisher: | Consew (Consolidated Sewing Machine Corp., N.Y. & Miami) |
Format: | 11” x 8”, B&W illustrations, online download (no charge) |
Date: | 1985 |
Pages: | 36 |
Specific to Consew industrial machines but will help identify walking foot and sewing problems generally. Impressive trouble-shooting section and a chapter on servicing clutch motors, common to many industrials. Included as typical of some of the excellent publications, helpfully posted online by diligent manufacturers. Google and ye shall find. |
Author: | Ottis Dykes |
Publisher: | 187, Fitzgerald Rd, Rochelle, Ga. 31079 |
Format: | 9” x 6 (approx.), paperback. |
Date: | 1978 |
Pages: | 137, plus index |
Text is identical to, and a reprint of, Robinson’s S.M. Service Manual (see below). |
Publisher: | Tools For Self-Reliance, Netley Marsh, Southampton, Hampshire, SO40 7GY. http://www.tfsr.org/publications/ technical_information/sewing_machine_manual/ |
Format: | A4, online download. B/W photos. |
Date: | 2006 |
Pages: | 78 |
A stunningly good repair manual. Tools for Self-Reliance is a charity that sends, amongst other things, sustainable sewing machines (common Singers) to the third world. They need donated machines to work and have produced these instructions, downloadable free online, to help generous members of the public service their donations. Extremely thorough and profusely illustrated with CLEAR photos of virtually every moving part, plus tensions, timings, case refurbishment, etc. Excellent! |
Author: | Bert Robertshaw |
Publisher: | 194, Lytham Rd, S.S. Blackpool, England. http://www.singer-featherweight.com/ bert/bert.html |
Format: | 8½” x 6”, paperback, B&W illustrations |
Copyright Date: | 2003, Sew-Sales (Reprint). Original c. 1911. |
Pages: | 36 |
Clearly written by an Old Sewing Machine Guy as his cloth-capped picture reassuringly confirms on the cover. A short but informative book - originally written in the early twentieth century - that quickly explains the workings of domestic machines by shuttle type (transverse, vibrating, oscillating and rotary) - even a passage on the Class 29 bootpatcher - with sufficient information to get most machines back in time/tension etc. The modern reprint has clear line drawings and a troubleshooting section: ‘50 difficulties and their remedies’; plus a few pages from old Bert’s original catalogue for nostalgia value. Basic, but a good place to start. In print (2010). |
Author: | Mathew Levy |
Publisher: | Kogos International Corp. 1140 Broadway, New York I, N.Y., U.S.A. |
Format: | 9” x 6”, paperback |
Date: | 1962 |
Pages: | 86 |
Library of Congress Card No. 62-9020 | |
Written for use in the garment trade. An extensive troubleshooting guide with sufficient instructions to help operators maintain their machines. Generic information but clearly presented and illustrated. |
Publisher: | Singer Manufacturing Co. |
Format: | 8” x 3½”, paperback, B&W illustrations of Singer needles |
Date: | 1909 |
Pages: | 80 |
A useful list; 80 pages, comprising hundreds of (largely) American, domestic machines and their corresponding Singer needles. Canadian and a few British manufacturers are also included. Photographs of the needles to help I.D. The entries for Wanzer machines should be viewed with suspicion. |
Author: | Chrys Gunther |
Publisher: | Published privately, The Needlebar, www.needlebar.org/ |
Date: | 2003 |
A guide to dating sewing machines. Written by an expert collector. |
Author: | Chrys Gunther |
Publisher: | Published privately, The Needlebar, www.needlebar.org/ |
Format: | 8”x5”, paperback |
Date: | 2004 |
Pages: | 200 |
A comprehensive and reliable cross-referenced list of needles and substitutes. A phenomenal labour of love from a highly-respected collector. Currently (2009) out of print but the author reassures us, however, that a new version is being compiled and will be published when it’s ready. |
Author: | ‘Captain’ Dick Wightman |
Publisher: | Treadle-on Publications, www.treadleon.net/ |
Format: | DVD, 90 minutes. |
Date: | 1999 & 2005 |
Video transcription of the author ’s demonstration/lecture on restoring and servicing treadles and their cabinetwork. |
Author: | Not declared |
Publisher: | Not declared |
Format: | 11½” x 8”. Paperback. B&W line drawings |
Pages: | 218 |
Included because it’s readily available on a certain auction site. A hotchpotch of good but randomly presented maintenance instruction, interspersed with advice on setting up a repair business (which includes the suggestion that, having set up said repair business “any repair that involves replacing parts should be entrusted to a repair agent”). Pretty much all the necessary adjustments seem to be there but it’s up to the reader to translate the generic information to the specifics of their machine. Includes a chapter on blind-stitch machines but a good third of the book is simplistic advice on starting a home business (sample dot-matrix flyers?) and equipping a sewing room. |
Author: | Lee Robinson |
Publisher: | Value House, 349A Whitehorse Rd. Croydon, England. Turbotax mac download 2017. (some editions: Walla Walla, Washington, U.S.A.) |
Format: | 9” x 6½” (approx.), Paperback, reinforced with card by public library. |
Date: | 1958 (6th printing 1972) |
Pages: | 137 (140pp in some editions), plus index. |
Dewey: | 681-7677 |
A thorough, concise and copiously illustrated (B&W line drawings) analysis of the principal domestic machine types; from the vibrating shuttle (Singer VS2, 27 etc.) onwards. Zigzag, too. Comprehensive instructions for the diagnosis, dismantling and repair of pre-1958 machines. Older models with a transverse shuttle, or producing a chain stitch, are not covered. Chapters also on S.M. motors/controllers; relevant tools; equipping and adapting a repair workbench - with a built-in treadle! |
Author: | J.W. Urquhart, C.E. |
Publisher: | Crosby Lockwood & Co., London |
Format: | 6½” x 4½”, B&W illustrations. |
Copyright Date: | 1881 |
Number of Pages: | 172 |
“The aim of the Author in preparing this little treatise was to confine himself within the limits of such a production as might be read with advantage by that numerous portion of the community engaged in selling and adjusting sewing machines, as well as by the general public interested in stitching mechanism.” And this practical Victorian volume does exactly what’s engraved so modestly on the tin. Repair and maintenance details for Howe, Singer, Wilcox & Gibbs, Wheeler & Wilson (models 1-8!), Grover & Baker, Little Wanzer & Weir machines prior to 1881. An excellent and elegant read. Probably no longer affordable except, perhaps, by Isaac Singer’s heirs. |
Author: | Rosamond C. Cooke |
Publisher: | Manual Arts Press, Peoria, Illinois |
Format: | 8” x 5½”, hardback, B&W line drawings |
Date: | 1922 |
Pages: | 140 |
“Every girl is the potential customer of some sewing machine company, and a knowledge of every standard make of machine should be a part of her general information.” A high school textbook, designed to teach the underlying principles and construction of the sewing machine and help teachers to “operate any machine quickly and easily”. Well-illustrated, comprehensive explanations of many American machines of the period and basic sewing instruction. Chapter on chain-stitch machines and their attachments. Makes covered: Davis, Domestic, Eldridge, National, New Home, Standard, Singer, White, Willcox & Gibbs, Rotary and Greist attachments. |
Author: | Charlene Phillips |
Publisher: Microsoft access 2010 for mac. | Krause Publications |
Format: | 8'x 8' |
Date: | May, 2009 |
Pages: | 144 |
ISBN: | ISBN-10: 0896899233 ISBN-13: 978-0896899230 |
Everything you need to know about attachments; what they are, what machines they fit and comprehensive instructions for using them. Good photography; clearly presented and elegantly designed. |
Author: | Helen S. Holbrook & Albert V. Krewatch |
Publisher: | U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farmers’ Bulletin No.1944 |
Format: | 9” x 6”, paperback |
Date: | August 1943 |
Pages: | 24 |
Simple machine maintenance, quickly and straightforwardly explained. Produced during WWII to encourage the Home Front to make do and mend. A slight publication but a good place to start. Useful illustrated interchangeable needle list for American machines. |
Author: | Peter Lucking |
Publisher: | Arco Publishing, Inc., N,Y, |
Format: | 9” x 5½”, hardback & paperback |
Date: | 1985 |
Pages: | 112 |
ISBN: | 0-668-06556-7 (0-668-06562-1 paperback) |
A very general, beginner’s guide to sewing machines; buying, using and looking after. The instructions – especially for the attachments - are useful but not a lot more than what’s included in the manual that accompanied the machine. |
Author: | Charlene Philips |
Publisher: | The Sewbox http://www.thesewbox.com/ catalog/item/6067450/5883672.htm |
Format: | CD ($12), download ($8) http://www.thesewbox.com/catalog/ item/6067450/5883687.htm |
Date: | 2008 |
Pages: | 88 |
A comprehensive cross-referenced listing of Singer attachments and Fashion Aids, cross-referenced to the machines they once accompanied. Includes details of (nearly) all the extra attachments, Fashion Aids, puzzle boxes, oil cans, literature, furniture and loads more. Plenty of crisp photography and neat snippets of model information. Currently in print (2010). |
Author: | Paul N. Hasluck |
Publisher: | Cassell and Co, London, New York, Toronto & Melbourne |
Format: | 7” x 4”, hardback & paperback, B&W line drawings |
Date: | 1905-1920 |
Pages: | 160 |
Densely packed and clearly illustrated information on fixing a wide variety of pre-1920 machines; including transverse (boat-shaped) shuttle models, chain-stitchers and some industrials. Possibly the best of the repair manuals for earlier machines. |
Author: | John Giordano |
Publisher: | The Taunton Press Inc. |
Format: | 5 ½” x 8 ½”, paperback. |
Date: | 1997 |
Pages: | 105 |
ISBN: | 1-56158-220-4 |
“Tips on choosing, buying and (basic) refurbishing”. A valid selection of criteria to consider when buying a machine for sewing, rather than collecting. |
Author: | William Ewers (with H.W. Baylor and H.H. Kenaga) |
Publisher: | Sincere Press, Phoenix, Arizona |
Format: | 11” x 8½”, hardback |
Date: | 1968 1st Ed., 1970 2nd Ed., 1971 3rd Ed., 1974 4th Ed. |
Pages: | 209 (1971), 219 (1974) |
ISBN: | 0-912534-05-2 (Library of Congress 79-2683) |
A comprehensive guide to domestic machine maintenance, thoroughly Illustrated with B&W line art, photos, exploded parts diagrams etc., etc. Featured machines: Singer 15, 66, 127, 128, 201, 221. White Rotary, New Home, Sears, Wards, Western Auto, White. Pfaff 130, 230 360, Riccar, Viking (Husqvarna), Adler & Elna zigzags (plus Necchi straight stitch in the 1974 edition). Many Japanese models. Excellent book, but pricey. |
Author: | William Ewers (with H.W. Baylor and H.H. Kenaga) |
Publisher: | Sincere Press, Phoenix, Arizona. U.S.A. |
Format: | 10 ½” x 8”. Hardback. B&W. |
Date: | 1970 |
Pages: | 176 |
ISBN: | 0-912534-05-2 (Library of Congress 79-2683) |
Pretty much everything you need to service a wide variety of American and Japanese, post-WW2, domestic zigzag machines. Copious illustrations and directions but, as genuine copies currently fetch more than the cost of a professional overhaul, DIY may prove a false economy. |
Author: | Alex Askaroff |
Publisher: | Published privately (U.K.), available online: www.sewalot.com |
Format: | 8”x6” |
Date: | 2007 |
Pages: | 29 |
A meandering, over-written guide to just one aspect of machine maintenance. Illustration is minimal and the constantly changing typefaces confusing. Handy for someone who hasn’t read their manual or has never adjusted tensions before, but …. an entire publication? |
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