Originally Posted by
miriam
....My mom said she had an old Singer treadle that sewed chain stitch - so far nobody has come up with a Singer treadle that did chain stitch. Some times people call an old black machine a Singer whether it says Singer or not. We think it might have been a Standard. I have one and she used it like she was born to it. She is 89 and still refers to an old black machine as a Singer. I can't seem to break her of it.
I wish the ones that are trying to sell their non-Singer sewing machine could be broken of it. But when researching, I wish all "Singer's" were sewing machines
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I don't know what a Standard is like. I know I have wanted to find a treadle cabinet #10 & the 24-50 chain stitch "up close and personal" ever since I saw that Singer made one on Smithsonian site about 5 years ago. I think there may be a couple of places but I can only find this one right now.
http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollect...es/image18.htm
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.