📚 Sewing Machines

The Singer family of inventions: patent fights, door-to-door sales, and the household economics they changed.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject sewing machines in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The sewing machine	Rudolph Herzberg	1864	5
	Machine sewing	Singer Sewing Machine Company.	1938	4
	The invention of the sewing machine	Grace Rogers Cooper	1968	4
	Sewing for dummies	Janice Saunders Maresh	1999	4
	History of the sewing machine	James Parton	1860	3
	Sewing machines	Rosamond C. Cook	1922	3
	How to service and repair your sewing machine	Mathew Levy	1962	3
	Sincere's sewing machine service book	William Ewers	1968	3
	Sincere's zig zag sewing machine service book	William Ewers	1970	3
	The sewing machine	Grace Rogers Cooper	1976	3
	Capitalist romance	Brandon, Ruth.	1977	3
	The Butterick sewing machine handbook	Gretel Courtney	1977	3
	The sewing machine handbook	Peter Lucking	1985	3
	How to Adjust and Repair Your Sewing Machine	Arthur W. Smith	1987	3
	Sewing machines	Smithsonian Institution	2000	3
	How to use a sewing machine	Marie Clayton	2010	3
	Machine Stitch	Alice Kettle	2010	3
	List of parts	Singer Manufacturing Company	1922	2
	Service your sewing machine	Max Ingwer	1952	2
	Buying your home sewing machine	Ruth E. Knoch	1954	2
	The complete sewing machine repair book	Jack Miller	1961	2
	The mechanics of sewing	Watson M. Hannan	1963	2
	Veteran sewing machines	Brian Jewell	1975	2
	W.A. White & Co.'s new letter A family shuttle sewing machine, new letter A, price $30.00, this machine is mounted on an ornamental iron stand, with black walnut top, nicely polish	W. A. White & Co	1983	2
	Taming your first serger	Lori Bottom	1989	2
	SEWING STEP BY STEP (Singer Sewing Reference Library)	Cy Decosse Inc.	1990	2
	Know your babylock	Naomi Baker	1990	2
	Featherweight 221	Nancy Johnson-Srebro	1992	2
	The encyclopedia of early American sewing machines	Carter Bays	1993	2
	The A-Z of the sewing machine	Maxine Henry	1994	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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