Sewing history is full of delightful surprises. Here are a few fun facts:
- Singer once sold sewing machines door‑to‑door — they were the first company to offer payment plans, long before credit cards existed.
- The first electric sewing machines appeared in the 1880s, and people were scared they’d “run away on their own”.
- Early machines were so expensive that families treated them like heirlooms, displaying them like furniture.
- The first sewing machine needle moved sideways, not up and down.
- In the 1800s, sewing machine inventors were so competitive that they created the world’s first patent pool, known as the “Sewing Machine War”.
