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A Site for People-Powered Sewing Machine Users

TreadleOn is for users and fixer-uppers of human-powered sewing machines, treadle or hand-crank.

Singer 66K treadle sewing machine, with its drop-top stand unfolded.
A treadle Singer 66K made in 1922

We love all antique, vintage, and newer machines; rare or common; smart or tatty; valuable or inexpensive. There is a lot of basic restoration and maintenance information on this web site and shared through the large and active Email List.

Sewing and troubleshooting
Fixing sewing machines
Fixing cases and tables
Making things on your machines
History of TreadleOn
The email list
Meetings, exchanges and social

A lot of this web site, and of the discussions in the mailing list, covers maintaining, repairing, restoring and, where appropriate, modifying sewing machines. There are TreadleOn social events, too, both in-person, by-post, and online. Although electric sewing machines ("tailed") are technically off topic, they are often mechanically similar and we are not purists about excluding them.

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