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Happy Saturday! It’s Pile Of Mending time with Edna Pfaff. (Taken with instagram)

If I’m staying in the bay a while longer, I’m spreading out! (Taken with instagram)

I have a machine like this, sans table.

oldbookillustrations:

Willcox & Gibbs sewing machine.

From One hundred years’ progress of the United States…, collective work, Cincinnati, 1871.

Fisher Price music box

(via snowsnow004)

turnofthecentury:

Patient using exercise machine at the Zander Institute in Stockholm, 1890s. Courtesy Tekniska Museet/National Museum of Science and Technology, Stockholm.

Dr. Gustav Zander founded the institute in the late nineteenth century and stocked it with twenty-seven of his custom-built machines. It was the first “gym” in the sense that we know the word today.

Cabinet Magazine

This is INCREDIBLE.  If I could at all justify the purchase of another sewing machine, I’d be hauling ass over there tomorrow.

http://uhurufurniture.blogspot.com/2010/08/kenmore-sewing-machine-in-monterey.html