Originally Posted by
mim
I will have to find a pix I took while I was in St Petersburg Russia. I was staying with a lady for 2 weeks. I didn't know her, she was just earning extra money.
One night she was sewing curtains on a hand crank sewing machine. She also had a new electric machine, but preferred the hand crank. It had been her mothers -- way back it was originally a treadle -- they treasured it all these years -- even during WW2 when The city was surrounded by the Nazi army for 3 years and there was no food or heat. After WW2 it was electrified and then in 1975 she had someone weld a hand crank to it.
She liked it because she said it sewed each stitch straight not at an angle like all modern machines.
It is called the Red Revolution sewing machine
Mim
So much love and memory in one machine to pass from family member to family member. I do not come from a long line of sewers. I do not think any of my grands or greats even had sewing machines. I got my first sewing machine from my step-father who in his mid-forties decided he wanted to learn.