sewing machines into lamps????
09-21-2014, 02:54 PM
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sewing machines into lamps????
Hi, somewhere online (don't remember where now, but it was just the other day) I saw an article about how people are now buying up vintage sewing machines and turning them into lamps.
Oh dear.
Is anyone familiar with this? Maybe it's a good idea?? Any pictures of them, I just can't imagine. It just makes me think of all the treadle machines tossed out so that the legs could be turned into tables....
Oh dear.
Is anyone familiar with this? Maybe it's a good idea?? Any pictures of them, I just can't imagine. It just makes me think of all the treadle machines tossed out so that the legs could be turned into tables....
09-21-2014, 02:58 PM
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I've seen them at craft shows. I know that the guy that does those makes sure that these are real rust buckets and not able to be used as a sewing machine. He repaints them and does make them look nice, but I prefer a sewing machine to sew, not light up.
09-21-2014, 03:49 PM
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We were just discussing a really great Singer 66 redeye with nearly perfect decals that someone ruined by drilling through it to make a lamp. The damage is irreversible. I guess in some sense valuing the decorative potential of a sewing machine is a start in learning to value and preserve them but I figure they're better actually being used as sewing machines or displayed in a non-destructive manner. It would be no more difficult, in fact easier to have the lamp post behind or of to the side and the machine displayed in a manner where it could sew again some day.
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09-22-2014, 11:31 AM
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If they take a thrashed machine, with missing parts and damaged main hardware, repaint it and make a "whatever" I'm OK with it. It is when they try to make a "beautiful" lamp by taking a beautiful machine as a base I feel that the term "upcycling" is a lie. The first example would be taking something with NO function and making it pretty and useful, the second is "downcycling" where they take something that is capable of a lot and reduce it to something less useful, for profit...
09-22-2014, 04:23 PM
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09-22-2014, 04:29 PM
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Gross, but I can accept that.. at least it still sews...
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