Katrina Stockton’s Sewing History Museum will open Friday in the Chapman-Noble House in historic Midtown. The museum’s collection of more than 400 sewing machines date from the mid-1800s and ...

For much of the nineteenth century, inventors submitted a model with their patent application to the United States Patent Office. The National Museum of American History’s patent model collection ...

The beloved local seamstress and former owner of The Alterations Shoppe, Katrina Stockton, lived out a childhood dream while owning her shop and providing high-quality alterations for the community ...

Walking up to a massive warehouse on the edge of Tooting and Balham, the nerves start to hit. We're beginning to think we've come to the wrong place. Clearly, when we put 'Sewing Machine Museum' into ...

Many of the stories that I share in this biweekly column are suggested by readers. These are related to a place or event I remember from growing up during the early baby boom years in the Berkshires.

GREENFIELD — Little Orphan Annie may be famous in comic strips and movies, but she was first near and dear to the hearts of a Hancock County family who called her Mom and Grandma. Now, a piece of her ...

On the second floor of the Nevada State Museum located in the history gallery, you'll find one of the earliest known Singer sewing machines. It has a patent date of 1849 stenciled on the side. However ...

Judy’s Sewing & Craft Museum in Morro Bay is closing and putting hundreds of its items, including antique sewing machines, on auction. The auction is being being hosted on the SLO Cal Estate Auctions ...