Dressmaker is a Japanese, badged machine. There's tons of different names, Dressmaker being just one of the many cloned machines out there. They were copied and different names or badges were slapped on them. Made in Japan. Not USA. I have a badged, Japanese machine. They're hard to trace back to year etc. though that's really not all that important. They don't fetch the interest that the Singers, Whites etc. do, but they're still neat because you can find them in great colors and they're still work horses.