International holidays - Sewing Machine Day

Every year on June 13, Sewing Machine Day is celebrated all over the world. This holiday is not officially approved; more about it is known in a narrow circle of professionals whose work involves working with a sewing machine. If it were not for the creation of the first sewing machines, they would have had to work in harsh conditions, making thousands of seams by hand per day. That is why on June 13, all these people celebrate Sewing Machine Day, thanks to all those who invented it. Even in ancient times, people always tried to simplify their lives, constantly inventing different mechanisms and devices. Leonardo da Vinci, for example, back in the 15th century, drew on paper the first drawing of a unit that vaguely resembled a sewing machine. However, three centuries passed before her birth. The first idea to simplify the work of a seamstress was Karl Weisenthal, an inventor originally from Germany. In 1755, he invented a primitive apparatus for machine sewing to facilitate and speed up the work of a seamstress, and several decades later the first design of a sewing machine was created and patented. It was invented by the Englishman Thomas Saint, and on June 13, 1790 he received a patent. This date marked the beginning of the existence and development of the first official sewing machine and the date of celebration of Sewing Machine Day. The first machines were simple and primitive, but even they greatly simplified the work. Then came an era of development and modernization: • Joseph Madersperger invented a machine that made 100 stitches per minute; • Barthel Thimonier created a machine that made 200 stitches; • Elias Howe invented a machine that made 300 stitches per minute. Isaac Merritt Singer made his invaluable contribution to the modernization of sewing machines, who created a reliable sewing machine for home use. Owning a Singer sewing machine was a sign of wealth and even after many years they still work. However, modern sewing machines are much better at their jobs and can carry out many different commands than those that were released in the last century. Without a sewing machine, human life would be much more difficult, because sewing clothes, home textiles or shoes would take sewing factories days, weeks and months. Long live the sewing machine!