| Sewing has been around for thousands of years in | | | | machine parts was created by Bathelemy Thimonnier, |
| one form or another. Throughout the last millennium, the | | | | who was a French tailor. The sewing machine part |
| greatest technological advancements to the sewing | | | | utilized a hooked needle as well as a single thread to |
| machine has been the types of materials that are | | | | make a chain stitch. The fear of ending up obsolete |
| used to make sewing needles as well as threads. | | | | overwhelmed a mob of other French tailors in the |
| It was not until the nineteenth century, that a working | | | | country who ended up burning down Thimonniers |
| sewing machine was created. To no ones big surprise, | | | | factory. |
| it caused an uproar. Unfortunately, in a less than | | | | How It Works |
| positive way. | | | | The sewing machine part that makes a chain stitch |
| The Discovery | | | | can be found below the fabric. A needle thread near |
| Sewing by hand is almost intuitive. Two separate | | | | it's point pushes down through the material and the |
| pieces of cloth, a thread and a needle, the relationship | | | | unique hooked end catches the thread and then pulls it |
| between them is obvious. The movement comes quite | | | | up into a loop prior to it letting go. |
| naturally of the needle through the cloth and then back | | | | After that the next stitch places more thread within |
| again is completed automatically. | | | | the loop and the hooked piece pulls the initial stitch |
| The difficulty is that the basic movement that is so | | | | tightly which makes the next loop. While such a device |
| easy for a person doing it by hand is impossible for the | | | | saves people a lot of work, it can just create a |
| same movement attempted by a machine. It has the | | | | straight seam that can be pulled loose if any part of |
| ability to force the threaded needle down through the | | | | thread breaks. |
| cloth yet it cannot let go of it up again on the other | | | | The sewing machine part which adds to the |
| side of the cloth and push it back through the other | | | | functionality of the home machine is the bobbin which |
| side. | | | | puts in a second thread and then attaches to the first. |
| The initial patent that was filed for a sewing machine | | | | This has the effect of making a lock stitch, which, as |
| part that had the ability to replicate that movement | | | | the name suggests, is many time more secure. |
| was filed in the year 1755 and others soon followed | | | | Even though this kind of sewing machine part is the |
| yet no functioning machine was developed until the | | | | discovery that actually made sewing by machine |
| year 1830. | | | | possible, each subsequent sewing machine part made |
| The first fully functioning machine with various sewing | | | | its mark in history. |