the 1930’s:Īs you can see it was in an extremely good condition and came with a leather belt. My machine is a german Phoenix 50 from ca. I figured out how to work it and I am hoping by writing this little series of tutorials I can help others figuring out their machines too. Now I am definitely no expert or anything of the sort on vintage treadles but I was given a treadle by my grandma a few months ago ( click here to read more) and it came without a manual. So you’ve acquired a vintage treadle and have no manual? Or the machine has been in the family for generations and hasn’t been used for decades (“Oh, that old thing surely doesn’t work anymore”)? Let me start by saying it is next to impossible to actually break a sturdy old treadle machine, so it will very probably still work and with a little care just as well as it did 80 or 90 or 100 years ago. Ok I promised a series of tutorials on sewing with a vintage treadle a while ago and here we go!
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