subject: German Vintage Sewing Machines [print this page] The sewing machine became broadly obtainable approximately 1850, hundreds of smaller manufacturers started making them. Most of these manufacturers were either in the United States or Great Britain. These two countries were dominating the business. Germany was one of the first other countries to begin manufacturing sewing machines One of the first sewing manufacturing companies in Germany was established in 1855 by Clems Muller in Dresden.
This was simply a insignificant beginning to Germany's soon to be flourishing sewing machine industry. Many of these companies started with copies of initial US-made sewing machines such as the Singer type, however, as the industry began to develop bigger and stronger, the range and attraction of the machines increased. A lot of the time, the German companies were all building comparable versions of the same model machine, making many judge that they were copying off of each other. Another theory is that the demand was so high for the larger manufacturers that they were subcontracting to minor companies.
Once the Germans had found a machine design that worked, the design was not altered for a extended time. A great illustration of this is the cast base machine which was nonetheless being made 60 years afterward during WWI. German machines were regularly put down as if they were worse class. This was chiefly done by the British. The machines were truly of very good quality, numerous instances they were actually better than the British machines. Even better, they were much more reasonable than British machines. These German machines became so popular that they were imported into Britain in vast numbers. The main German manufacturers opened up offices in London to ease the considerable orders.
