Well, it’s done. After weeks of trawling Craigslist, an hour-long phone call with an intelligent stranger about a different machine that wasn’t going suit my needs, and a two-week delay while ...

That’s how we feel about sewing machines. Sure, there’s a motor. There’s a needle and some thread ... If you want to get an industrial one, we have some advice.

Industrial sewing machines will need more power to pierce thick fabrics, and the power needed will come from the motor as it gives your needle strength to pass inside a piece of fabric and make a ...

The suite of manufacturing tools available at the Pennsylvania Fabric Discovery Center (PA FDC) at the Center for Functional Fabrics (CFF) offer full scale industrial ... but not limited to, Pfaff ...

A basic electronic sewing machine contains a motor in the body. This drives the needle in the top part of the sewing machine and controls other working parts, such as the bobbin and feed dogs – the ...

eye-pointed needle, to make a lock stitch, and the mechanism for feeding the cloth. During the so-called "sewing machine war" of the 1850s, rival manufacturers seemed to be more interested in ...

A research team led by Sarah Pfaff, postdoctoral scholar in biology at Penn State, used their new method to explore how banding patterns in specialized plant cell walls are made.

I remember one morning in the factory, coming back from break and seeing a note propped up against my sewing machine ... We were using Pfaff and Singer industrial machines that were incredibly ...

Bette Boellstorff, right, and one of her daughters, Leslie Reed, work on a gift during a sewing ... machine in 1850 — to ...

A team led by Sarah Pfaff, postdoctoral scholar in biology, developed a method to isolate plant cells and reprogram them into other cell types, similar to the way stem cells differentiate into ...

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