If you remember your grandmother using a Singer sewing machine, you're not alone. This iconic brand has been part of the foundation of home sewing for more than a century and a half. Although ...

Sewing machines, threads, button boxes and fabric swathes have always held a nostalgia for me. At my late Granny Margaret’s home in the 1980s, boxes of buttons, beads and threads were something I ...

This sewing machine was one of the first ever manufactured by Singer. Singer sewing machines was founded by Issac Singer in 1850. This model was manufactured in 1865 in Singer's factory ...

The factory was one of the largest industrial plants in the world. Workers revolt against the intensive working practises and low pay by taking strike action. Socialist and trade union politics ...

By fixing her handbag with the Singer machine Crompton saved £40 Credit: John Lawrence I’m not alone in the trend to mend. Research shows that sales of sewing machines have been markedly growing.