Articles on ISMACS
Please note that many of the articles on this site are reprinted from ISMACS magazines. Some of these can be approaching 30 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
- Collecting by Default
- Why Beryl has Alan in Stitches
- Collecting Sewing Machines in Australia
- The state of collecting Down Under.
- Curtain Capers - A Ghost Story From Battle
- Frightened stiff she dropped her tea and the phone.
- Doom and Gloom
- The future of the sewing machine after the United States' Civil War
- 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 ...
- Holiday Snaps from Denmark
- Martin Gregory finds a Bergmann and Huttemeier and a Petersen of Horsens while on holiday in Denmark.
- How to Interpret Registration Marks
- Interpreting Board of Trade Registration Marks (1842 to 1883)
- More on interpreting Registration Marks
- How Machines are Made
- How much is my machine worth?
- How Sewing Machines Form Stitches
- The Singer Vibrating Shuttle, Wheeler & Wilson, Willcox & Gibbs
- An Interview With Antique Sewing Machine Collector Harry Berzack
- Collector's Weekly Interview
- Harry Berzack Part II
- The Collector's Weekly Interview, continued
- 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
- John Langdon's Obituary
- 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
- Men of Vision 6
- Unknown Genius
- Murray Clark
- The passing of an Icon in New Hampshire
- 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
- An Old Sewing Machine Guy Comes of Age
- Cyril Chapman celebrates 71 years in the business.
- England's Queen
- Our Heritage in the Cellar
- The Pinking Machine
- ... a mechanical go-with ...
- To Protect and Conserve
- The Riverside Museum in Glasgow
- 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
- Sharp Practice
- ... supplying your vintage sewing machine with needles ...
- Story of Over-Edgers
- Who Was Thomas Hood?
- Thoughts on Family Machines
- Thoughts on Figurals
- To the Victor, the Spoils
- Who really invented the sewing machine?
- A Tricky Woodwork Restoration
- Rags to Riches
- Sewing Machine Research Links
- Sewing Machines Take on a Life of Their Own
- How one collector grew his business...
- A Sewing Machine We Do Not Recommend
- Montgomery Ward did not recommend this sewing machine 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