Why the cloth wrapping around the arm of vintage machines?
#1
Why the cloth wrapping around the arm of vintage machines?
Penny and I see many vintage machines with a wrap of cloth pinned or somehow secured around vintage Singers, etc. arms. OK. I plead ignorance here. Is it to make a softer spot to grab and move the machine? I'm sure it's a simple. Hmmm. Thanks. Don
#7
And yes, as long as the enamel/decals are already beat, you may as well put something fancy there! If your sewing table looks like mine, it would be the one pincushion that wouldn't disappear under everything.
Last edited by MrsBoats; 11-24-2011 at 04:50 AM.
#10
Oh my - to see those things on a machine just makes me want to cry.
I have a bronze plated (copper colored) White Rotary embossed machine from the company's 50th anniversary in 1926 and I'd bet that the original owner put that darn rag on it within minutes of getting her new machine.
The protective lacquer is completely worn off of that area and there is not any patina - so there's a bright copper stripe all around the arm of this gorgeous old machine.
At least this will mend itself with time. The real heart-breakers are the ones which have decals and japanning dinged to death underneath the rag.
I have a bronze plated (copper colored) White Rotary embossed machine from the company's 50th anniversary in 1926 and I'd bet that the original owner put that darn rag on it within minutes of getting her new machine.
The protective lacquer is completely worn off of that area and there is not any patina - so there's a bright copper stripe all around the arm of this gorgeous old machine.
At least this will mend itself with time. The real heart-breakers are the ones which have decals and japanning dinged to death underneath the rag.
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