It is, to-day, in | | the best of order, stitching fine linen bosoms nicely.

I have paid at least $3,000 | | for the stitching done by this old machine, and it will do | | as much now as any machine I have.

She paused from stitching at the cotton bags to look straight at Grim.

This sudden movement, therefore, of my grandmother's threw me into an alarming state of terror, and, quite still and subdued, I sat industriously stitching, all the morning after.

"Not a bit of it," remarked Amos Parr, who was squatted on the deck busily engaged in constructing a rope mat, while several of the men sat round him engaged in mending sails, or stitching canvas slippers, etc.

Now Dick was to go in quest of a fortune, and all the girls were stitching shirts for him, and were as happy as possible.

But although marked development in the machines has occurred in so short a time, it may be taken for granted that those advances are but the accumulated results of many years' prior invention and experience of stitching appliances.

This necessitated the use of large needles with deep side channels, to enable the thread to run freely, and as a consequence the punctures that had to be made in the fabric were unnecessarily large, and could not in any case be entirely filled by the thread, a condition which is now recognized as essential in linen stitching and for waterproof boots.

The advantage thereby gained in stitching linen goods, and in sewing leather, where every puncture of the needle should be quite filled by the thread, is at once apparent.

The chief point of interest in the machine is undoubtedly the means employed in transferring the motion from the main shaft to the underneath parts, an arrangement as ingenious and effective as any device ever introduced into stitching mechanism.

9 exhibits the stitching made by this machine upon the edge of the button hole.

A most ingenious device in this machine is the arrangement for automatically lengthening the throw of the feed while stitching around the eye of the button hole.

Power sewing machinery was speedily devised and introduced by several of the first manufacturers, controllers of the speed of the machines followed, and two or three splendid systems of stitching by steam power were soon widely known.

I do not know of any instance of sewing machinery in a factory being driven by an electromotor, but such means of conveying motive power appears admirably adapted for that purpose, when the stitching room happens to be far removed from the main shafting or engine.

These are especially steady, a feature of no small moment in moving stitching machinery of various kinds.

A drop-feed oscillating shuttle machine for manufacturing purposes; a wheel-feed oscillating shuttle machine, furnished with a trimmer, used chiefly in stitching leather and boot uppers; double chain-stitch machine, used for sack making, now shown for the first time; and a single thread "Lightning Sewer," fitted with a trimmer for hosiery work.

They are by this process rendered pliable, and can be used in this state for stitching the leather ends of larger belts, or can be stiffened by plunging them into a bath of isinglass and white wine vinegar.

Her stitching, if you would believe it, was a dream.

R80952, 8Jun51, The Singer Manufacturing Co. (PWH) Singer machine 107W51 cylinder bed, ornamental lock stitch for stitching sweat bands into caps and cloth hats, by Archibald Tregaskis.

Singer machines of class 14K (K2541) with multiple heads for lacing or stitching jacquard cards, by Archibald Tregaskis.

Instructions for using Singer sewing machine 112W116 for two line lock stitching in fabrics.

R104783, 29Dec52, The Singer Manufacturing Co. (PWH) Singer machine 107W50 cylinder bed zigzag lock stitch for stitching sweat bands into caps and cloth hats, by Archibald Tregaskis.

for two-line lock stitching in fabrics.

Instructions for using Singer sewing machine 112W116 for two line lock stitching in fabrics.

" The cloth of their coats Nunez saw was curiously fashioned, each with a different sort of stitching.