ThayerRags

I did a quick YaHoo Photo Search for Singer Advertisements, and the treadle photos where a lady is seated at the machine shows either a high-backed chair that appears to be a dining table chair, or nothing can be seen beneath or below the floor-length skirt and dress styles that they all posed wearing. They could be setting on a box for all I know....

Does anyone know if the 4-legged adjustable claw-foot stools with the round seat like the one shown in my photo above were actually sold as a “Piano Stool”, or just a stool? Did a person have to buy them from a piano store?

The Singer Chair in my other photo came much later than the treadle sewing machines, as far as I can tell. It has an adjustable height and tip back on it, as well as a height adjustment for the seat. I tried that one for a while, but the danged thing was too hard for me. My wife set in one like it 8 hours a day for a few months when she operated a serger machine in the local Bra Factory that she worked at for a while. She didn’t have any desire to use one for a home sewing chair, and wouldn’t even try it.....

My wife sets way forward on her office swivel chairs that she uses at sewing machines too. I keep waiting for one of them to buck her off (her weight too far forward and the chair scoots out rearward from under her), but it hasn’t happened yet. If I sat that way in mine, I’d find myself setting on the floor in a jiffy.

CD in Oklahoma