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Greetings,
Like the title states.... I'm looking for insight, experience, recommendations, etc. Anything that may help in looking for one of these.
This is something I've been thinking about as a gift to my better half.
All ideas welcome!
Cheers
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In a word, WHY?
ETA: Did you mean 'overlock' or 'overlocker' AKA 'serger'?
A lockstitch sewing machine is just a regular machine - (versus a chainstitch machine)
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Actually a lockstitch machine is different than a regular sewing machine. It uses two spools of thread if I am not mistaken ,and industrial in nature. There has been some discussion of these on various sewing boards. A great one to go ask this question on is patternreview.com. There are a lot of professionals on that site. Very helpful.
Unless you did mean overlocker/serger. Thats a whole 'nother thing.
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Hi Elaine,
My wife has always "spoke" of making her own chenille designs... fancy floral and figural spreads, rugs, etc. As far as I know, which is admittedly little on the subject, a lockstitch is how that's done, ain't it??
Correct me as necessary!
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To tell you the truth, I have no idea how chenille is actually done - I thought I knew the theory, but now I'm not sure.
I know what a coverstitch machine is (as compared to regular sewing machine or serger or chainstitch machine) but I guess I'm not clear about what you mean by a lockstitch machine.
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Okay, I decided it was time to google. (duh)
from here:
http://www.apparelsearch.com/Definit...definition.htm
The lockstitch is the mechanical stitch most commonly made by a sewing machine. Most home sewing machines are lockstitch machines, although sergers have entered the home market in the past ten years or so. Of a typical garment factory's sewing machines, half might be lockstitch machines and the other half divided between overlock machines, chain stitch machines, and various other specialized machines.
The lockstitch uses two threads, an upper and a lower. The upper thread runs from a spool kept on a spindle on top of or next to the machine, through a tension mechanism and a retracting arm, and finally through the hole in the needle. The lower thread is wound onto a bobbin, which is inserted into a case in the lower section of the machine. To make one stitch, the machine lowers the needle through the cloth into the lower section, where a hook catches the upper thread at the point just before it goes through the needle. The hook mechanism loops the upper thread entirely around the bobbin case, so that it has made one wrap of the bobbin thread. Then the retracting arm pulls the excess upper thread back to the top of the machine and the feed dogs pull the cloth back one stitch length.
Lockstitch is so named because the two threads, upper and lower, "lock" together in the hole in the fabric through which they pass. Unlike chain stitch, lockstitch does not unravel easily, making it difficult to remove. The term single needle stitching, often found on dress shirt labels, refers to lockstitch, as opposed to chain stitch which unravels easily and is usually used on lower quality garments.
Two other common kinds of mechanical stitches are overlock and chain stitch. Be sure to check out the original page for some great links.
But I still haven't found the info on chenille...
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Thanks, Elaine!
I'll be sure and check on that link tomorrow... or tonight if I still have the energy. I'm in the process of a web update and I'm behind a couple of weeks, so this one is rather tedious.
I'll keep you posted!
Cheers
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As far as I can tell from googling Georgia history, etc., chenille (of the bedspread type, not the classic woven type) is made by tufting.
I vaguely remember that there is some sort of machine that does tufting. I think it came on the home-sewing market maybe about 7-10 years ago. Seems to me that I first read about it in The Creative Machine Newsletter. Anyone else remember more?
Elaine (who loves a good mystery...)
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History of Chenille ...
In 1895, Catherine Evans was inspired by a family heirloom and made her first hand-tufted chenille bedspread. Five years later she sold a similar spread for $2.50.
Miss Evans moved to Dalton from a rural community in Whitfield County. Popularity of the chenille bedspread grew, and when she began receiving orders for her work, Miss Evans asked some of her neighbors to help her. Using quilting designs, she showed her helpers how to stamp the pattern on the fabric and make the chenille tufting stitches. From this beginning, Evans Manufacturing Company was established in 1917, and was operated by the founder until 1963 when the business was sold.
Early chenille bedspread operations were conducted in people's homes. The "company" furnished the stamped sheeting and chenille yarn for tufting to the women and children who did the work. Tufting is simply sewing yarn into the base fabric which, when laundered, shrinks around the base of the tuft causing it to "bloom" and stay in place. By the late 20's and early 30's, mechanization took the craft from the homes to factories, and the chenille tufted textile industry was successfully on its way.
The first chenille tufting machine was a Singer 31-15, normally used for sewing heavy textiles, such as tents and work clothes, but converted especially for tufting. About 1940, wide chenille tufting machines were built. Forerunners of today's giant carpet tufting machines, the early counterparts were used to turn out continuous rolls of tufted chenille fabric or cotton chenille rugs. Dozens of people claim credit for developing the first practical machine, and patents were issued to various inventors, but it is impossible to name any one inventor. from here:
http://www.chenillemagic.com/mall/FeaturedLinks.asp
scroll down...
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While looking for more chenille info I found this interesting history...
http://www.kennesaw.edu/research/crh...les/bandy.html
Sounds like the original was done similarly to candlewicking, but then sheared.