First mechanical experiments on producing a seam with a machine and a two-pointed needle with an eye

INVENTOR: CHARLES FREDERIC WEISENTHAL (ENGLAND)

First sewing machine made of wood for shoemakers

With forked needle, pricker, hooked needle, chain stitch

INVENTOR: THOMAS SAINT (ENGLAND)

Chain-stitch sewing system

The first of its kind: needle with eye at the tip and controlled bobbin hook; sprocket wheel material feed – 300–350 stitches per minute

INVENTOR: BALTHASAR KREMS FROM MAYEN/EIFEL (GERMANY)

Double-stitch sewing machine
Two-pointed needle with eye and shuttle-like device for double-stitching
INVENTOR: JOSEPH MADERSPERGER FROM KUFSTEIN (AUSTRIA)
 
1814
Machine for sewing quilts
INVENTOR: JOSEF MADERSPERGER (AUSTRIA)
 
1830
Serial production of the Couseuse model – for the production of military uniforms
INVENTOR: BARTHÉLEMY THIMON-NIER – CONSIDERED TO BE THE FIRST MANUFACTURER OF SEWING MACHINES
 
1834
Two-thread sewing machine
With shuttle, however, not yet fully functional
INVENTOR: WALTER HUNT (USA)
 

Double saddle-stitch sewing machine

With a sewing rail of 30 – 40 cm; the second thread travels back and forth in a shuttle

INVENTOR: ELIAS HOWE FROM BOSTON (USA)

Central bobbin sewing machine

With two-pointed shuttle and rotating bobbin with spool, forwards and backwards movement; mass-produced

INVENTOR: WILSON (USA)

Two-thread, chain-stitch sewing machine

INVENTOR: GROVER/BAKER (USA)

Sewing machine

With rotary sewing hook with curved needle and hopper feed

INVENTOR: WILSON/WHEELER (USA)

Sewing machine

With improved cloth feed device was presented at the World Exhibition in Paris

INVENTOR: WILSON/WHEELER (USA)

A new type of low-priced chain-stitch sewing machine was mass produced virtually unmodified until 1930; by 1958, there were already more than 100,000 sewing machines of this kind in the USA
INVENTOR: JAMES GIBBS FROM VIRGINIA (USA)

Singer sewing machine

With a vertical needle bar, horizontal motor shaft and continuous material feed

INVENTOR: ISAAC MERRIT SINGER (USA)

Vibrating shuttle sewing machine from France (illustration above)

Chain-stitch sewing machine (illustration below)

Sewing machine with two rotary sewing hooks

Also featured a bobbin case fan, rotary thread take-up and controlled thread tension

INVENTOR: MAX GRITZNER FROM KARLSRUHE (GERMANY)

First German zigzag sewing machine

INVENTOR: JOHN KAYSER  (GERMANY)

First hemstitch sewing machine sewed 1,000 stitches per minute
INVENTOR: KARL FRIEDRICH GEGAUF, STECKBORN (SWITZERLAND)

Models D and F of the hemstitch sewing machines
Used in the clothing industry in Europe and the United States
INVENTOR: FRITZ GEGAUF,  GEGAUF AG, STECKBORN (SWITZERLAND)

High-speed hemstitching machine Gegauf-Fisa
Sewed 2,200 stitches-per-minute
INVENTOR: KARL FRIEDRICH GEGAUF, STECKBORN (SWITZERLAND)

First household sewing machine from the BERNINA brand, model 105

INVENTOR: FRITZ GEGAUF,  GEGAUF AG, STECKBORN (SWITZERLAND)