I didn't even notice the stool at first, I just saw the Brother machine, lol.

Cari

Is that a shower stool/chair?

they just used a wooden chair thats all they had back in the day. my mother kept her chair that went with pump organ she sold the organ in the early 50's

Yep, shower stool.
Rodney

could never use a shower chair as a sewing stool. anyone here ever sit on one of those. Then try up stand up. I like to lean back relax and study what I've done. Then when quilting those 8 foot long lines, and 8 feet of blanket on the floor, in your lap and stuffed under the needle kinda like knowing I'm not going to fall off the chair. I have pushed the sewing machine in a cabinet over a few times LOLOL. That was fun

I have always sat forward on my chair when typing (at work) and sewing. I had a Schnauzer who would sit behind me in my chair when I was sewing.

I've tried the wheeled office chairs when treadling...not a good thing. The chair rolls backwards. :eek:

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

I had the same experience when I was trying to teach myself how to treadle with both feet on the peddle. Once I decided that using just my right foot on the peddle was better for me, I don’t have much trouble with rolling chair runaways.

I've begun to use a 5-caster motorcycle stool in my bikeshop sewing area to operate my Singer 31-15 treadle. I bought the specialty stool for my wife one Christmas for fun, but she never cared for it much. The problem with it is the seat that’s contoured to resemble a motorcycle seat, and the seat swivels freely, so if you stand up for a second and don’t look before you sit back down, the seat tends to realign the contours with the brush of a leg into an “oh my goodness!!” position, if you know what I mean..... Touching down in the side-saddle position is NOT comfortable!

CD in Oklahoma

I've used a variety of chairs and as long as the seat is level they seem to be OK. My wife commented on the white plastic one shown in Cari's pic; she said they have a tendency to be unstable. They flex and over you go. My SIL has one at her sewing table.

Joe