Many inventors modified and improved sewing machines through the 1800s. Elias Howe and Isaac Merritt Singer are credited with the foot treadle and these machines became very popular. On the ...

A vertical presser foot kept the cloth in place ... to manipulate large amounts of fabric. The Singer Class 66 model was a treadle or hand-crank machine, but an external motor could be retrofitted ...

[Grow Your Own Clothes] had finally found their ideal sewing machine for doing zig-zag stitches (/\/\/\) and converting to a treadle drive (mechanically foot-fed) — a Singer 411G. This is a well ...