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Recent Additions to ISMACS International
- Curtain Capers - A Ghost Story From Battle
- Frightened stiff she dropped her tea and the phone.
- True Story Number 13 -- The Honour of an Irishman
- I like to think of him flinching a little every time he walks past the Lion ...
- Carry On Baggage
- How to Travel With Your Sewing Machine
- True Story Number 12 -- The Phonograph Horn
- I don't suppose you've got any phonograph horns?
- How to Orient a Sewing Machine Needle
- Instructions and advice on identifying, orienting and testing replacement needles. Read in conjunction with the Needle Cross-reference Charts.
- Needle Cross-Reference Charts
- An exhaustive list of modern replacements for vintage needles.
- Greist Long Shuttle Buttonhole Attachment Manual
- ... covering the use of the Long Shuttle Buttonhole Attachment ...
- Singer 192 Spartan Manual
- "Instructions for Singer's budget model"
- Singer 319K Manual
- "Instructions for using the Singer 319K automatic swing needle sewing machine"
- New Home NH Manual
- New Home round bobbin rotary, model NH, Instruction book (24pp)
- ISMACS News Back Issues
- ...complete your collection today...
- Domestic Rotary 153 Series
- Domestic rotary series 153, Instruction manual (56pp)
- S. Davis Medium & Family Machines
- S. Davis & Co. Ltd., Medium & Family machines, Directions for using.
- Franklin Long Shuttle
- The Franklin long shuttle sewing machine, model no.117.42, Instructions for using (24pp).
- Bradbury Family & Medium Machines Manual
- Bradbury Family & Medium machines, Instructions for using (machine and attachments); 16pp; c.1890.
- Singer 12K Manual
- Singer 12K 'New Family', Instructions for using machine and attachments (Form K2); 12pp.
- Domestic No. 3 & 4 Sewing Machine Manual
- The Domestic S.M. Instructor. Manual for the Domestic 'Light Running' machine (No. 3 & No. 4 pictured) and attachments; 32pp; c.1890.
- Husqvarna Vibrating Shuttle Manual
- Husqvarna V.S. (vibrating shuttle) sewing machine, Directions for the use of; 20pp; 1916 (Sweden).
- Wheeler & Wilson Number 8 Manual
- ... interchangeable glass presser feet instead of steel attachments ...
- Davis Vertical Feed Manual
- Illustrated directions for operating the Davis New High Arm vertical feed sewing machine with instructions for the attachments. (48pp).
- ISMACS Needle List
- UPDATED 4/9/10 - Sewing Machine Needles and their Equivalents
- Free Manuals List
- An exhaustive listing of sewing machine manuals available - without charge - on the internet
- Optional Extras
- Attachments that could be had for the Seidel & Naumann
- Singer Model 401 Manual
- Singer 401 'Slant-o-matic' zig-zag sewing machine - instructions
- Essex Chain Stitch Manual
- Essex miniature sewing machine instruction book
- New Home Attachments Manual
- "Illustrated Directions for using our latest special set of steel attachments upon the New Home Machine."
- White Rotary Manual
- "Directions for using the White Rotary Sewing Machine, Book 11"
- 221-1 Featherweight Manual
- "Instructions for using Singer Portable Electric Sewing Machine 221-1 featherweight."
- 221K Featherweight Manual
- Instructions for using Singer Portable Electric Sewing Machine No. 221K.
- 222K Free-arm Featherweight Manual
- Dated November 1955 (Form K5969). Including how to use the attachments. 96pp.
- The First Jones Sewing Machine
- ... but who made it? ...
- Singer's Factory in Flames
- ... a major fire devastated the Elizabethport factory ...
- Kimball & Morton
- ... so much more than lions ...
- Sewing Machine Research Links
- Cheapskate's Corner
- The most important sewing machine find of the century
- An 1830's vintage Thimonnier is found in South America ...
From the archives of the International Sewing Machine Collectors' Society


