Vintage Sewing and Accessories

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Vintage and Antique Sewing

I love to collect vintage items of all types, but there is something uniquely exciting about opening a vintage sewing chest and finding the treasures within. This lens is devoted to some of those treasures, as well as information about antique and vintage sewing items.

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Vintage and Antique Sewing
Find all types of vintage and antique sewing machines and accessories
Antique sewing machines, toy sewing machines.
publication devoted to antique sewing machines and collectable toy sewing machines.
SEWING MACHINE HISTORY
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Blog Posts about Vintage Sewing

LISTINGS: Courses/Workshops, Talks/Lectures, Write Stuff - February 16 - 23
Cathie's Classes, small friendly daytime sewing classes for all skill levels, adapt patterns to your own design, fit clothes to your bodyshape and learn sewing techniques. (07905 250826, catherinemccartan@btinternet.com).
Looking Back: Vintage wedding gowns reveal styles of the time
One can imagine the skill, patience and time it took to design and hand-sew the gowns, several of the Civil War vintage. Many are from the 1870s, 1880s and 1890s. Knobby is one from the flapper era. One of the dresses displayed was worn by Jane Addams' ...
Thrifty living sometimes means you have to spend money
Still, I feel the need to sew, knit and paste and have raided my workroom to dream up projects such as the one I recently completed. I had a tiny rectangle of floral fabric that came in a bag of vintage swatches. I didn't want to toss it, ...

Antique Sewing Machines eBay

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Books about Antique Sewing Machines

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Vintage and Antique Sewing Notions on eBay

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Antique Thread Holders on eBay

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Books on Antique Sewing Accessories

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Sew Retro: A Blog about Vintage Sewing

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Vintage Sewing Patterns on eBay

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Vintage Sewing Pattern Books on Amazon

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I am a big collector of vintage items: specifically home decor, jewelry, and sewing items. One of my favorite past times is searching through thrift shops,... more »

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