Articles on ISMACS International
Please note that many of the
articles on the site are reprinted from ISMACS magazines. Some
of these can be up to 15 years old and readers should remember
that continuing research may well have improved our knowledge
base since the original was published.
~~ Graham Forsdyke ~~
- A Brief History of the Sewing Machine
- ISMACS Sewing Machine Booklist
- Graham's True Stories
- Toy Sewing Machine Articles
- Art of Needle Making
- Almost a millionaire
- GF considers John A Greenough's claim to fame
- American Sewing Machine Patent Models
- Alternative Power
- Bachelder's Patent
- Belting
- Bribery and Corruption
- Carry On Baggage
- How to Travel With Your Sewing Machine
- Curtain Capers - A Ghost Story From Battle
- Frightened stiff she dropped her tea and the phone.
- Early French Sewing Machines
- First Blind Machinist
- GF looks into the strange affair of Walter Hunt
- ... The man who abandoned a fortune
- Great Exhibition
- Hand-Stitch Sewing Machines
- ... the heyday of the straw hat, with fine bonnets for the ladies ...
- How Machines are Made
- How much is my machine worth?
- How Sewing Machines Form Stitches
- The Singer Vibrating Shuttle, Wheeler & Wilson, Willcox & Gibbs
- Invention of the Sewing Machine: An Alternative History
- We wouldn't want our little girls running around with a hole in their stocking, would we?
- Illinois Kit
- IMCA Museum
- Manufacturing Parts for Vintage Machines
- Martin Gregory Lecture, 1996
- Mechanising the Factory
- Men Of Vision 2
- Charles Young
- Men Of Vision 4
- T P Hill
- Men of Vision 5
- Charles A. Dearborne
- Museums of the World
- The Next Generation
- "I am 14 years old and a quilter."
- Notes on the Wardwell
- 19th-Century Sewing Machine Trade Cards
- Japanning
- Jenny Lind
- Odd Ball Treadles
- An Old Lady is Reborn
- England's Queen
- Our Heritage in the Cellar
- The Pinking Machine
- ... a mechanical go-with ...
- Recent Advances on Sewing Machinery
- Restoration Workshop
- French Polishing without Tears
- The Care of Machines
- Saving a Lion
- Sellers' History
- Sewing Machine Attachment Tins
- Mirrors, lithographs and . . . dwarves?
- The Sewing Machine Factory
- Sewing Machines at the London Exhibition of 1862
- Story of Over-Edgers
- Who Was Thomas Hood?
- Thoughts on Family Machines
- Thoughts on Figurals
- To the Victor, the Spoils
- A Tricky Woodwork Restoration
- Rags to Riches
- Sewing Machine Research Links
- A Sewing Machine We Do Not Recommend
- Montgomery Ward did not recommend this
in 1913
- Share Certificates
- Slave Girls
- Union Restoration
- Using Your Attachments: The Underbraider
- Was This Really the First Electric Machine?
- The Way it Was
- William Newton Wilson