Sears was Amazon.com first, they are indirectly responsible for the creation of the Delta Blues, and their Kenmore sewing machines can give Singer a run for its money… and win. It’s time for a deep dive into the history of how sewing machines exist inside the larger story of American capitalism.


https://www.npr.org/2018/10/16/657923126/how-the-sears-catalog-was-revolutionary-in-the-jim-crow-era 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270301038_Jumpin'_Jim_Crow_Southern_Politics_from_Civil_War_to_Civil_Rights 

https://www.savannahnow.com/story/news/2018/10/16/sears-radical-past-how-mail-order-catalogs-subverted-racial-hierarchy-of-jim-crow/9543787007/ 

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/monograph/book/31560

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A collection of three topics: featherweight repair, sewing machines as cultural power in colonial Africa, and sewing technology as military infrastructure in the US civil war.

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We went on a thrifting adventure and found some cool stuff, including a Singer 301!
Dedicated to Mom/Grandma, 1938-2025.

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We went on a thrifting adventure, and found some cool stuff.
Dedicated to Mom/Grandma, 1938-2025.

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Sewing machines all work basically the same way, right? WRONG! Today we are on a history tangent learning about a totally different way for the basic action of a sewing machine to be accomplished.
Dedicated to Mom/Grandma, 1938-2025.

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We’re back! We’ve got trivia! Join us today in learning about PNW history and speculating on how the sewing machine fits into it all.

Look up your location: https://native-land.ca 
PNW history video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSSX0Bc3Mvs 
Seattle train history: https://trainmuseum.org/ 

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We had some things come up to interrupt our usual publishing schedule, so rather than leave you without an episode this week we’ve got a crossover from one of Aradia’s other podcast projects that focuses on books.

Hot Nuance Book Club episode: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-hot-nuance-book-club--5873018 

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We had some things come up to interrupt our usual publishing schedule, so rather than leave you without an episode this week we’ve got a crossover from one of Aradia’s other podcast projects that focuses on books.

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We start on how all these new tariffs will affect the world of sewing, wander through international sewing supply commerce, confess our imperfections, and give ourselves a pep talk about how perfection isn’t possible anyway.

Rit-dye: https://www.ritdye.com 
How2Make: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK4JTIuerSE 
Behind the Bastards: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/ 
Project Hail Mary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Hail_Mary 

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What happened to retail fabric stores? TR was there to see the end of the good times. This is the start of an ongoing conversation about fabric as an integral part of sewing machine history. 

Sewing Parts Online: https://www.sewingpartsonline.com 

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