The sewing machine is one of the most transformative inventions in history. Before its creation, making clothes was a slow, labor-intensive process. Every stitch was done by hand, limiting how quickly ...

The Inman Eats and Crafts Makers Market set for Sunday celebrates the many creative people and organizations calling the city ...

A Japanese American family settled in Bloomington after enduring racism and World War II camps. How Time Flies is a daily ...

While our poor tailor was starving in Europe, the sewing machine was being perfected on a new principle, in the United States, and in 1845, Elias Howe, Jr., obtained his pa'ent out of which he ...

Many inventors modified and improved sewing machines through the 1800s. Elias Howe and Isaac Merritt Singer are credited with the foot treadle and these machines became very popular. On the ...