Used2Sew
By: Used2Sew
Language: en
Categories: Society, Culture, Leisure, Crafts, Hobbies
"Used2Sew" is an entertaining podcast about one of the most important inventions to impact American lives outside of the automobile: the sewing machine.Mother-daughter team TR and Aradia will be talking about sewing machines, sewing history, and sewing culture in the past and present. With comedic timing and far-ranging references, we will explore topics including (but not limited to) textiles, technology, transportation, industry, women, business, home sewing, social movements, politics, and the impacts of fast fashion. We will also talk a lot about vintage sewing machines with an emphasis on the Singer company, plus detours into the commercial and...
Episodes
Chainstitch Machines
Oct 26, 2025Did you know that there is more than one way to make a stitch with a sewing machine? Today’s episode covers the chainstitch, a useful and dynamic stitch that can be created on machines that are toy sized!
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Halloween Costuming Rewind
Oct 19, 2025Some topics are so seasonal that they bear repeating, and as we’ve just celebrated our first podcast birthday it seems fitting to revisit an old episode from back before we had learned most of our production lessons!
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What Is It Worth?
Oct 12, 2025TR and every other sewing machine hobbyist has been asked to do a quick appraisal of the monetary value of a sewing machine, and they have some very strong opinions about it! Here’s a practical description of how to keep “the worth bug” from taking over your hobby.
ISMACS early Singer serial numbers: https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/early-serial-numbers/singer-sewing-machine-pre-1900-serial-number-database-2-9-2024.pdf
Singer long-shuttle machines: https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/28
More about long-shuttles: http://www.sewmuse.co.uk/singer2.htm
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Early-American-Sewing-Machines/dp/096379160...
Show Me Your Badge
Oct 05, 2025TR and Aradia took a field trip to an old house, found an oddly named sewing machine, and then fell down a rabbit hole of learning about badged sewing machines. What are they, why do they exist, and how can you identify the machine when the name is meaningless???
Buy a sticker! https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/WYGY99FBLA474Shelton McMurphy Johnson House: https://smjhouse.org
Touch My Imperial Bobbin
Sep 28, 2025Bobbins! What are they, and how have they evolved? How did the very practical gizmo of an auto-winder give way to the innovation of…. A digital clock? Today’s episode covers a lot of ground, but trust us, it is all connected.
https://extension.wvu.edu/files/d/dbc6f7a0-9b40-4917-8432-6c4976526c96/wlg-42-backstitch_needles_digital.pdf
The Slant'O'Matic
Sep 21, 2025Is there anything more Peak America than tailfins on a sewing machine?
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The Swing Needle episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-swing-needle--65860681
Pungo Living Home: https://pungolivinghome.com
AC/DC name origin: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TtrqUCdWU7g
Vintage Wiring
Sep 14, 2025Electricity is intimidating, but with a few basic principles it is something we can work with as sewing machine repairers! TR walks us through the process of evaluating and fixing vintage sewing machine wiring.
Duration: 00:32:39Scraps of Topics (part 2)
Sep 07, 2025Continuing last week’s discussion of all kinds of projects in the sewing room, fanmail, and other sidequests.
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Scraps of Topics (part 1)
Aug 31, 2025The sewing room is bustling with projects as the podcast approaches its first birthday. We’ve got lots to talk about, especially the latest addition to Aradia’s stable of machines!
Duration: 00:43:57U2S Rewind - Singer and the Invention of the Sewing Machine
Aug 24, 2025Originally published September 2024.
A combination of two episodes from Season 1 of the podcast to show both our progression as a podcast and two sides of the story of the invention of the sewing machine.
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Stagecoach Road Vintage Sewing Machine: https://www.stagecoachroadsewing.com
Logo and music by TR Kelley
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Attachments
Aug 17, 2025TR tells Aradia about 16 of the many sewing machine attachments that have been invented.
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Costuming
Aug 10, 2025TR and Aradia exchange costuming stories from their respective July events.
WoTCon: https://wotcon.com
OCF: https://oregoncountryfair.com
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Needles
Aug 03, 2025TR tells Aradia about the history of needles, and how to be a good needle consumer.
West Virginia Extension: Backstitch: A Brief History of Needles, Bobbins and Stitches | WVU Extension
Order a Wawak catalog: https://www.wawak.com/request-a-catalog
The three needle brands: Organ, Schmetz, Groz-Beckert
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U2S Rewind: Sewing Machine Song part2
Jul 27, 2025Today we get into some sewing machine history and personal lore, with the second half of TR’s infamous Sewing Machine Song! We will dissect and explain every line through the lens of the lessons learned so far on this podcast. Originally published January 26th 2025
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rana_Plaza_collapse
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U2S Rewind: Sewing Machine Song part1
Jul 20, 2025Today we get into some sewing machine history and personal lore, with the first half of TR’s infamous Sewing Machine Song! We will dissect and explain every line through the lens of the lessons learned so far on this podcast. Originally published January 18th 2025
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U2S Rewind: Electricity pt2
Jul 13, 2025Originally published November 10th 2024
Welcome back to Used2Sew, where it’s time to talk about how rural electrification came to the sewing machine itself, and how Singer failed to capture the moment.
Pungo Living: https://pungolivinghome.com/2021/11/07/restoration-of-a-1930-vintage-singer-model-101-sewing-machine/
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U2S Rewind: Electricity pt1
Jul 06, 2025Originally published November 3rd 2024
Welcome back to Used2Sew, where it’s time to talk about rural electrification! ZZZZT! The motorization of gadgets wasn’t possible until every house could reasonably be expected to have power, though it took a while to make sure that power wasn’t more of a hazard than help. This topic is so large that we broke it into two parts; this week we talk about electricity in general, and next week we’ll get into how it relates to sewing machines in particular.
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Thirty Years of Sewing Education
Jun 29, 2025TR and Aradia compare their sewing educations across 30 years.
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Which Machine?
Jun 22, 2025A practical guide to navigating the quest for a first vintage sewing machine.
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Bernina
Jun 15, 2025By request we are exploring outside of our usual Singer wheelhouse into Berninas!
Alex Askaroff: https://sewalot.com/bernina_sewing_machines.htm
Bernadette’s book: https://www.powells.com/book/make-sew-mend-traditional-techniques-to-sustainably-maintain-refashion-your-clothes-9781645674863
Singer sewing reference library: https://www.thriftbooks.com/series/singer-sewing-reference-library/
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Bernadette Banner
Jun 08, 2025It’s time for fashion nerding! Or at least fangirling over one fashion nerd. TR and Aradia have discovered Bernadette Banner on YouTube, and are here to talk about her construction of a Wheel of Time show outfit.
Bernadette’s book: https://www.powells.com/book/make-sew-mend-traditional-techniques-to-sustainably-maintain-refashion-your-clothes-9781645674863
Making Moiraine’s outfit videos
Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PHQgJj4kBc
Video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLnWlKdxRNA
Video 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5O159rd2Rk
Video 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0-kpGwV4ew
Grain of salt resourc...
Necchi and Elna
Jun 01, 2025Singer might have been the most well known name in the US before WWII, but eventually European machines began to make up more and more of the new machines US customers bought. Here are the tales of two of the European machines that challenged Singer for the US market.
The Silver Bobbin: https://silverbobbin.com
Elna Supermatic: https://silkmothsewing.blogspot.com/2011/09/green-machine-elna-supermatic.html
Vittorio Necchi: https://www.stillstitching.com/2018/12/vittorio-necchi-sewing-machines.html
Leon Jolson: https://www.stillstitching.com/2018/12/necchi-nelco-elna-leon-jolson.html
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The Singer Featherweight
May 25, 2025The Singer Featherweight is perhaps the most well known sewing machine of all time. Let’s talk about how it got such a rabid cult following.
The Featherweight Shop: https://singer-featherweight.com
Vintage Sewing Center and Museum: https://www.facebook.com/VintageSewingCenterandMuseum/
Custom paint jobs for featherweights: https://www.sewserious.com and https://www.stillstitching.com/p/paint-restoration.html
Ready to be restored featherweight in Mike’s collection: https://www.stagecoachroadsewing.com/product-page/singer-221-featherweight-sewing-machine-in-stock-to-be-restored-for-you
Quilting community: https://quiltersconnection.org
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People Powered Sewing Machines
May 18, 2025Off-grid sewing can be accomplished in a variety of ways, all of them fun.
Treadle belt: https://cottagecraftworks.com/rubber-treadle-sewing-machine-belt
Installing a treadle belt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoOWxXUWY6Q
LED sewing machine light: https://singer-featherweight.com/products/light-bulb-led
TreadleOn: https://www.treadleon.net
Jackary power station: https://www.jackery.com/products/explorer-240-portable-power-station
Podcast about Luddites: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-cool-people-who-did-cool-96003360/episode/part-one-all-hail-king-ludd-159850054/
Gandhi quotes about sewing machines: https://www.mkgandhi.org/voiceoftruth/machinery.php
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Edit Your Wardrobe
May 11, 2025Fighting fast fashion begins at home!
Victorian Sweatshop: https://www.victoriansweatshop.com/victorian-sweatshop-501752
TreadleOn: https://www.treadleon.net
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The Swing Needle
May 04, 2025What is a zig-zag, and how were consumers sold on the idea?
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Swing needle bits and bobs: https://cyndykitt.com.au/a.main/index.htm
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The Singer 201
Apr 27, 2025Another installment of our ongoing series of episodes that focuses on a specific Singer model. This episode is about the Singer 201 and was inspired by a friend showing us a picture of a particularly rusty specimen.
Pungo Living Homes comparison between the 201 and 15-91: https://pungolivinghome.com/2020/02/05/a-simple-but-in-depth-comparison-the-differences-between-a-singer-201-2-and-a-singer-15-91/
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Tension (and more)
Apr 20, 2025It’s time to talk about tension, and a new-to-us Singer 101, and even some fan mail!
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Sears and Kenmore
Apr 13, 2025Sears was Amazon.com first, they are indirectly responsible for the creation of the Delta Blues, and their Kenmore sewing machines can give Singer a run for its money… and win. It’s time for a deep dive into the history of how sewing machines exist inside the larger story of American capitalism.
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/16/657923126/how-the-sears-catalog-was-revolutionary-in-the-jim-crow-era
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270301038_Jumpin'_Jim_Crow_Southern_Politics_from_Civil_War_to_Civil_Rights
https://www.savannahnow.com/story/news/2018/10/16/sears-radical-past-how-mail-order-catalogs-subverted-racial-hierarchy-of-jim-crow/9543787007/
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Dead Featherweight (and more)
Apr 06, 2025A collection of three topics: featherweight repair, sewing machines as cultural power in colonial Africa, and sewing technology as military infrastructure in the US civil war.
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The Singer 301
Mar 30, 2025We went on a thrifting adventure and found some cool stuff, including a Singer 301!
Dedicated to Mom/Grandma, 1938-2025.
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Field Trip
Mar 23, 2025We went on a thrifting adventure, and found some cool stuff.
Dedicated to Mom/Grandma, 1938-2025.
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Davis Vertical Feed
Mar 16, 2025Sewing machines all work basically the same way, right? WRONG! Today we are on a history tangent learning about a totally different way for the basic action of a sewing machine to be accomplished.
Dedicated to Mom/Grandma, 1938-2025.
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Chinuk Wawa
Mar 09, 2025We’re back! We’ve got trivia! Join us today in learning about PNW history and speculating on how the sewing machine fits into it all.
Look up your location: https://native-land.ca
PNW history video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSSX0Bc3Mvs
Seattle train history: https://trainmuseum.org/
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Crossover episode: Kate Elliott interview by Hot Nuance Book Club part2
Mar 02, 2025We had some things come up to interrupt our usual publishing schedule, so rather than leave you without an episode this week we’ve got a crossover from one of Aradia’s other podcast projects that focuses on books.
Hot Nuance Book Club episode: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-hot-nuance-book-club--5873018
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Crossover episode: Kate Elliott interview by Hot Nuance Book Club pt1
Feb 23, 2025We had some things come up to interrupt our usual publishing schedule, so rather than leave you without an episode this week we’ve got a crossover from one of Aradia’s other podcast projects that focuses on books.
Hot Nuance podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-hot-nuance-book-club--5873018
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No Perfection
Feb 16, 2025We start on how all these new tariffs will affect the world of sewing, wander through international sewing supply commerce, confess our imperfections, and give ourselves a pep talk about how perfection isn’t possible anyway.
Rit-dye: https://www.ritdye.com
How2Make: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK4JTIuerSE
Behind the Bastards: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/
Project Hail Mary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Hail_Mary
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Retail Fabric Fail
Feb 09, 2025What happened to retail fabric stores? TR was there to see the end of the good times. This is the start of an ongoing conversation about fabric as an integral part of sewing machine history.
Sewing Parts Online: https://www.sewingpartsonline.com
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Patsy Cline
Feb 02, 2025Travel back with us to the 1950s, where a mother-daughter team used sewing and singing to create one of the most iconic country music acts of the midcentury.
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Sewing Machine Song: https://youtu.be/03rQM7orKpE?si=iXK4y8McNBz0Qyha
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Sewing Machine Song part 2
Jan 26, 2025Today we get into some sewing machine history and personal lore, with the second half of TR’s infamous Sewing Machine Song! We will dissect and explain every line through the lens of the lessons learned so far on this podcast.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rana_Plaza_collapse
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Sewing Machine Song (part 1)
Jan 19, 2025Today we get into some sewing machine history and personal lore, with the first half of TR’s infamous Sewing Machine Song! We will dissect and explain every line through the lens of the lessons learned so far on this podcast.
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Season Preview
Jan 12, 2025Welcome back to Used2Sew, where we are beginning a new season of the show by talking about what we’re going to talk about over the next several months of episodes. Many shiny topics are glimmering on the horizon, and we hope you will enjoy joining us on the adventure of deciding which topic to tackle next.
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Boxing Day
Dec 29, 2024Welcome back to Used2Sew, where we are wrapping up our first season of the show! We reflect on what we’ve learned this year, thank our first Patreon we aren’t directly related to, and talk about how to shed unwanted items from the sewing room that are blocking your creativity.
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Christmas Eve Guy
Dec 22, 2024Welcome back to Used2Sew, where TR has another bizarre retail story to relate, and we are also considering what gift giving with a sewer can look like.
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Stagecoach Road Vintage Sewing Machine: https://www.stagecoachroadsewing.com
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Gadgets and Gizmos
Dec 15, 2024Welcome back to Used2Sew, where we are talking about gadgets, gizmos, and the concept of store bought. What makes the difference between useful, needful tools, and completely useless gimmicks, and what lies in between? All that and more in this week’s episode.
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Bette and Binger
Dec 08, 2024Welcome back to Used2Sew, where we are talking about sewing machine collectors that take it to the next level.
Bette’s auction: https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2024/10/31/auction-of-a-lifetime-features-nearly-300-sewing-machines-unique-fabric-100-years-old/
The auction website was already taken down! You’ll just have to take our word for what the machines looked like.
Binger’s museum: https://vintagesewingcentermuseum.com
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Sewing Rooms
Dec 01, 2024Welcome back to Used2Sew, where it’s time to ask the question “where do we sew?” That’s right, we’re talking sewing rooms! The sanctuary of the sisterhood of sewing, where sharp and hot things reside and the rest of the world can take a number.
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Still Stitching (movie review)
Nov 24, 2024Welcome back to Used2Sew, where it’s time for our first movie review! TR found a full length documentary about vintage sewing machines, and we had a great time watching it. Fellow sewing machine enthusiasts with epic collections and encyclopedic knowledge of the history, plus loving photography and foley, make this film a delight to watch and rewatch.
Still Stitching https://www.stillstitching.com/p/documentary.html
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The Singer 99
Nov 17, 2024Welcome back to Used2Sew, where it’s time to talk about the Singer 99. From its upside down origins as a 66 to the heights of decal-o-mania, this is a fun tale of sewing machine history encapsulated in a single lineage of models.
Alex Askaroff: https://sewalot.com/index.htm
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Electricity pt2
Nov 10, 2024Welcome back to Used2Sew, where it’s time to talk about how rural electrification came to the sewing machine itself, and how Singer failed to capture the moment.
Pungo Living: https://pungolivinghome.com/2021/11/07/restoration-of-a-1930-vintage-singer-model-101-sewing-machine/
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Electricity pt1
Nov 03, 2024Welcome back to Used2Sew, where it’s time to talk about rural electrification! ZZZZT! The motorization of gadgets wasn’t possible until every house could reasonably be expected to have power, though it took a while to make sure that power wasn’t more of a hazard than help. This topic is so large that we broke it into two parts; this week we talk about electricity in general, and next week we’ll get into how it relates to sewing machines in particular.
Louisan Mamer and the REA: https://sova.si.edu/record/nmah.ac.0862 & https://www.coope...
Spooky Sewing Machines
Oct 27, 2024Welcome back to Used2Sew, where it’s almost Halloween and thus time for creepy stories! We have two spooky machine stories (trigger warning for spiders and rodents) and a sidequest for more information.
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Who Invented the Sewing Machine?
Oct 20, 2024Welcome back to Used To Sew, where it’s time to talk about the origins of the sewing machine, and all the drama that came with it. This is a slightly different episode than usual, in that we are just reading selected sections of an essay that somebody else wrote. We also have fun new transitions to try out! More Halloween content next week.
Sewing Revolution by Jamie H. Eves, Beverly L. York, Carol Buch, and Michele Palmer https://millmuseum.org/sewing-revolution/
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Halloween Costuming
Oct 13, 2024Welcome back to Used To Sew, where it’s time to talk about the most intense time of year at the fabric store: Halloween!!! This is the month of everyone having a collective creative crisis of costuming, often falling back on fast fashion to fill the gap. TR tells you tales of 6 types of customers, and reflects on some of Aradia’s costumes in the past and present.
Memo (the illustrator who made the Aradiapedia drawing): https://x.com/memo113
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The Full Rotary
Oct 06, 2024Welcome back to Used To Sew, where it’s time to talk about some nitty gritty machine stuff, have way too much fun with sound effects, and introduce our unofficial sponsor.
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Stagecoach Road Vintage Sewing Machine: https://www.stagecoachroadsewing.com
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Fast Fashion and Planned Obsolescence
Sep 29, 2024Welcome back to Used To Sew, where it’s time to talk about fast fashion’s many forms and many, many harms. This is one of the topics that inspired us to start the podcast, so please listen up and let us know what you think!
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The First Sale
Sep 22, 2024Welcome back to Used To Sew, where it’s time to talk about TR’s entry into the world of selling Singer sewing machines, beginning with her very first (and perhaps weirdest) sale.
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Stagecoach Road Vintage Sewing Machine: https://www.stagecoachroadsewing.com
Sewing Machine Song:
https://youtu.be/03rQM7orKpE?si=iXK4y8McNBz0Qyha
https://trkelley.bandcamp.com/track/the-sewing-machine-song
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Singer: Man, Myth, Machine
Sep 15, 2024Welcome back to Used To Sew, where it’s time to talk about the infamous Singer. We cover Mr Singer himself, the shipping of sewing machines, the communal ownership of sewing machines, and how exactly a sewing machine makes a stitch.
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Stagecoach Road Vintage Sewing Machine: https://www.stagecoachroadsewing.com
Sewing Machine Song: https://youtu.be/03rQM7orKpE?si=iXK4y8McNBz0Qyha https://trkelley.bandcamp...
Why Do We Sew?
Sep 13, 2024Welcome to Used2Sew, a podcast about everything to do with the sewing machine. In our first episode we cover the historical context of clothing, sewing culture over time and in our lives, and some of the impacts of fast fashion.
One Size Fits All: https://babeswithaxes4.bandcamp.com/track/one-size-fits-all
Ghana’s fast fashion pollution problem:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-12/fast-fashion-turning-parts-ghana-into-toxic-landfill/100358702
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jun/05/yvette-yaa-konadu-tetteh-how-ghana-became-fast-fashions-dumping-ground
Sewing machine restoration: https://www.stagecoachroadsewing.com
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Used2Sew: Introduction
Sep 12, 2024Welcome to Used2Sew, a podcast about everything to do with the sewing machine. Meet your hosts, learn what we’re all about, and get a vague idea of what we are going to cover in this season and beyond.
Logo and music by TR
Editing and production by Aradia
A Fox And Raven Media production
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