Sewing Machines
Self Tailored Clothes Made Easy!
Who, When, and Why
Much of womens' time was devoted to making clothing handmade with needles and thimbles. With the sewing machine taking hours off of the time it took to make clothing women had more time for leisure and other employment.
Elias Howe's sewing machine
lockstitch
inside of a sewing machine
Bibliography
Elias Howe Sewing Machine September 10, 1846. Digital image. Elias Howe. Wikipedia, 14 Jan. 2015. Web. 16 Jan. 2015. <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Elias_Howe_Sewing_Machine_1846.jpg/150px-Elias_Howe_Sewing_Machine_1846.jpg>.
"Elias Howe." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 14 Jan. 2015. Web. 16 Jan. 2015.
Lockstitch. Digital image. Stitches in Time 100 Years in Stitching and Sewing. N.p., 4 Oct. 2004. Web. 20 Jan. 2015. <http://www.moah.org/stitches/tech.html>.
Wikipedia contributors. "Sewing machine." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 12 Jan. 2015. Web. 20 Jan. 2015