Printing what would keep a sewing machine running in 1890 for National Sewing Machine Day (June 13)
June 13th is National Sewing Machine Day! Today honors the invention that has helped hold clothes together for over 170 years. On June 13, 1790, English inventor Thomas Saint received a patent for the very first sewing machine design.
While Saint’s invention was revolutionary and other major designs came afterwards by the 1840s, it was Elias Howe and Isaac Singer’s sewing machine patents that made the machines accessible by the early 1850s and changed the world during the latter part of the Market Revolution. By 1852, tailors and sewing businesses in Sacramento had sewing machines in their shops, which greatly increased production over sewing by hand.
For today, Jared letterpress printed an image from a hand-carved woodcut of something that you would need for your sewing machine in the late 1800s. This woodcut, made in the 1890s by Lewis Winter at his wood and photo engraving business at 627 J Street in Sacramento, would have been used in advertising in newspapers, catalogs, and magazines.
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