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Singer 15-88 with accessories in drawers showing great locking storage, easily accessible to you when you sew! I LOVE the tilt out drawer for needles, needle threader, screwdrivers, feet, or other tiny bits & pieces, that get lost in drawers.
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Singer's 15-88 was the very first treadle sewing machine my husband bought, and brought home to me. The table was sun bleached and dried out, the machine needed cleaned and oiled, but it was LOVE at first sight!
The 15-88 uses class 15 bobbins, of course, and uses an oscillating hook, instead of a rotary hook. The 15-88 needs the needle installed flat side to the right, and threads left to right.
Some of my very favorite sewing setups include treadle tables, and yes, I do mean without using electricity! Not that I don't have, & enjoy using electric machines, too, but, at one time, I had 7 treadle tables in my home!
I had 4 in functional condition, with a machine in, or on them. They happen to be Singer brand tables, & machines, although sometimes I put other brands of machines in them, just so I can treadle those other machines that are usually electric!
The other 3 were in need of repairs, and have since, been repaired, put in functional condition, with a sewing machine, and rehomed, due to spece considerations!
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| Singer 15-88 treadle table & machine, I am repairing a sheet, using my treadle. There is a motor attached to the back of the machine, the electric type that requires a belt, but since I prefer treadling, I've never rewired it, after we bought it used, & someone had cut the wires off. |
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Singer 15-88 treadle (has electric light, and a motor attached, but I don't have them wired, I prefer to just use it treadled. Gorgeous crocheted spoolpin doilies are made by one of my online sewing friends, Marietta O'Brien, from one of the Facebook sewing machine groups! She has crocheted hearts, pansies, & other beautiful spool
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Singer Oak Puzzlebox 127 Vibrating Shuttle low shank sewing machine accessories include 5 long thread shuttles (for Singer 127 & 128 VS sewing machines), a binder foot, 5 sizes of rolled hemmer attachments, a tucker/tuck marker, a ruffler, a shirring plate, which goes under the ruffler, to allow you to both create a ruffle, and sew it to your project, in one quick step. There is a presser foot with a hole & screw in the back, for using with the binder & rolled hem attachments, and a quilting & seam guide, which can be set into the back of the presser foot, and tightened at whatever width you like to help you make perfectly parallel rows of stitching.
Large & small screwdrivers, a machine bed seam guide & screw for attaching it to the machine bed, to help you sew perfectly even seams, a stiletto, to help you hold fabric, ribbons, or other trims you are sewing, near the moving needle, without sewing your fingers, an underbraider (to help you sew beautiful braiding & cording to the underside of your project, so you sew with the fabric right side down, trace the decorative design on the wrong side of the fabric, and feed the braid or cord, through the under braider plate, so you can do professional level specialty sewing, very easily! There is even a scissor bias binder cutting guide, to help you cut your own perfect bias binding! |
My Singer 15-88 is my favorite treadle (calibrated stitch length lever, feed dog drop, and reverse), but I dearly love my Singer 127's, as well, and I have put a Singer 66 Redeye in a 7 drawer Singer table, as well!
I would LOVE a Singer 201-1 or 201-3, but only the 201-2 potted motor version was sold in the USA, originally, all 201-1 & 201-3 models in the USA were brought over by machine owners, so they are quite rare in the USA.
Most old Singer sewing machine manuals, for machine models which were originally sold as hand crank, or electric machines, also have information on how to adjust, & oil & service your Singer treadle table, which is very important information, because they do need dusted, & oiled, and adjusted, if you want them to work properly, as well as quietly!
If you want to see a schematic for the Singer treadle tables, here is a website with a nice informational bit-
https://sewingmachine221sale.bizland.com/store/page92.html
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| Singer 7 drawer treadle table is missing the center front drawer, but has all 6 locking side drawers. I had 3 treadled Singer 127 VS's (after I gifted one to a friend from church), and wanted a zigzag machine in a treadle table, so I traded out the 127 for this New Home zigzag machine (not nearly as well built as machines with the same design, from Japan, in the 1960s & earlier, but it does work, after I fixed it, it was broken when my hubby bought it & brought it home.) Not all sewing machine brands will fit in the same tables, & new machines do not have the required method of attaching them to this type of table, so you may have to "jury rig" a method of attaching other brands & models of machines, to a treadle table. I will most likely put a Singer 66 Redeye in this table, though, so I can use the 66 treadled, it has a motor and is in a wood case, currently, but I prefer treadling! |
TIP- The Singer Treadle tables do not have an anti-backspin feature, like some of the other antique treadle
tables, I believe White had a built in mechanism to avoid accidentally treadling in reverse, which causes a thread jam, so practicing with paper (no thread in the machine), is a good way to practice treadling, until you are comfortable with it, before starting to sew expensive fabric.
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| Singer treadle base has wood legs, cast iron treadle mechanism |
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| Singer 127 VS in slightly more modern treadle table with wood legs, cast iron treadle mechanism. There are some versions of this table which have metal legs and feet, probably steel, and the cast iron treadle mechanism. This table just happens to have the wood version of legs. |
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| Singer 127 5 drawer treadle cabinet, with tilt out, locking front tray, & 4 small, long drawers for your manual, scissors & other sewing items. The front tray is perfect for needles, screwdrivers, feet, & small attachments. |
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| 7 Drawer Treadle table fancy |
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| Singer 127VS in a plainer, more modern BENTWOOD DRAWERS style 5 drawer table. This once had been a Catawba County Red Cross table, as well as having been a Community |
Work Room during the Great Depression, in Catawba county, NC, and has the stenciled initials on the back of the table, as well as part of the Red Cross label.
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| 7 drawer treadle table side view |
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| 7 drawer treadle table closed front view. 5 drawer modern treadle with 15-88 is behind 7 drawer table in photo. |
