List of sewing machine brands

A sewing machine is a machine used to stitch fabric and other materials together with thread.[1] Sewing machines were invented during the first Industrial Revolution to decrease the amount of manual sewing work performed in clothing companies.[2]

Active

• Baby Lock – a Tacony brand.
• Barudan - A manufacturer of embroidery machines based in Aichi, Japan.
• Bernina – privately owned international manufacturer of sewing, sergers, and embroidery systems. The company was founded in 1893 in Steckborn, Switzerland, by a Swiss inventor Fritz Gegauf.
• Brother – Sewing machines company in Japan. In 1908, Established Yasui Sewing Machine Co. for sewing machine repair service, the predecessor to BROTHER INDUSTRIES, LTD., in Nagoya. Mass-produced home sewing machines starting in 1932.
• ShangGong group (SGSB Co. Ltd) with the brands:
• Dürkopp Adler
• Zoje, Chinese, founded in 1994.
• PFAFF Industrial
• Feiyue Group

Defunct

• American Sewing Machine Company[13]
• Davis Sewing Machine Company
• Domestic Sewing Machine Company, later purchased by White Sewing Machine Company
• Jennie June – manufactured by the June Manufacturing Company, which was founded in 1879.
• Jones Sewing Machine Company
• Kimball and Morton of Glasgow – former manufacturer of domestic and industrial sewing machines based in Glasgow, Scotland, that was active between 1867 and 1955.[14]

See also

• Glossary of sewing terms
• Lists of brands
• List of sewing stitches
• Barthélemy Thimonnier – a French inventor who is attributed with the invention of the first sewing machine that replicated sewing by hand
• Textile machinery manufacturers
• Textile machinery manufacturers in German-language-wiki/textil-maschinen-bau-unter-nehmen
• Digital textile printing