I'm with you on this one, Tamara. My mother was a dressmaker and tailoress
by trade, too and she did all her sewing on a plain singer treadle machine.
When she went out to West Africa during the war as my Father worked out
there (with 5 year old me in tow!) she swapped her treadle with her sister's
hand-wound one which was much smaller. I learned to sew using the hand
one - one hand to guide the fabric, and the other hand to wind the wheel!!!
My 21st birthday gift was my own sewing machine - an electric Husqvarna -
but still No embroidery stitches - and that was in the late 1950's.
All the fancy stitching seemed to be available to ordinary households much
later than that. Prior to that - we did it all by hand except for the
seams!
Overlockers were not available either - you either turned an edge over and
stitched it down and trimmed away the excess, - or whipped it along.
Buttonholes were made by hand too. - No Buttonhole attachments in "them
thare days"!!!!! :)) - and the hand made buttonholes are STILL better than
the machine made ones!!! :))
Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz
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