If you try to sew leather on a standard consumer-grade machine, more often than not you’ll quickly learn its limits. Most machines are built for speed, and trying to get them to punch through heavy ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Developer Douglas Jemal has closed on his purchase of a vacant Riverside plant where sewing machines were once made. Through his Jemal’s King Sewing LLC affiliate, Jemal paid $120,000 ...

A retirement and a bigger shed have allowed a Queensland man to build what he claims to be the world's biggest collection of leather sewing machines. Steve Bonnett from Bundaberg has gathered 85 ...

MARYSVILLE, Wash. — The sound of the 60s vintage sewing machine at Quil Ceda Leather is the sound of Lacey Coragiulo making a living. But this sound means more than that to this entrepreneur. "The ...

A year after buying the deteriorating former King Sewing Machine Co. manufacturing plant in Riverside, developer Douglas Jemal wants to tear down portions of the fire-damaged facility on Crowley ...

Dear Helaine and Joe: I am wondering if you can steer me in the right direction. I am trying to figure out what year my sewing machine was made. It is marked "Minnesota" and has fancy gold decoration ...

In the early years of the 19th century, the invention of the sewing machine was all but inevitable. Factories were filling with seamstresses and tailors, and savvy inventors and entrepreneurs around ...