Sewing machine

Description

Singer 13K sewing machine with black painted cast iron body and fiddle-shaped base, missing the stand, with gold and red decorative transfers consisting mainly of foliage designs, made by the Singer Manufacturing Co., New York, 1888

Museum reference

T.1990.X.15

Collection

Technology

Object name

Sewing machine

Production information

Singer Manufacturing Co.
New York, USA, North America

Date

1888

Materials

Cast iron

Physical description

Cast iron body; fiddle-shaped base; gold and red decorative transfers consisting mainly of foliage designs

Exhibitions

• Window on the World (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

On display

national museum of scotland »
level 1 »
window on the world