Sewing Machine Museum (London

Regular readers may know that I'm a Fashion & Textile Designer by profession. Even before I came here, quite a few people informed me that there are many museums that requires no entry ticked at all in London. One of it was Sewing Machine Museum and being a designer, obviously it went to my must-visit priority. This particular one is open of very specific days! So the earliest one I could find it open, I visited it.

Its a private museum owned by Wimbledon Sewing Machine Company. The ground floor is where the sewing machine repair section is and the museum is in the first floor. As soon as you enter is a section where several larger machines are placed (mostly manufacturing & industrial).

The 2nd room is filled with smaller and personal machines. Most machines are complete with their pedal, covers, seating etc. Sewing in the sense, not only cloth sewing machines, this place has everything from sewing needs like needs, threads etc, toys, boards, handwritten certificates, scissors, oil, footwear sewing machine, cutting machines and many more, from 1800s to 1900s.

One of the industrial machine here was a shoe stitching machine. This is a Thomas & Co Sewing Machine made in UK in 1888. The shoes are from Russel and Bromley, of Bond Street!

Quite a few machines here were also given to the museum by general public. One such machine is this super cute old Vulcan Sewing Machine for kids, complete with its cardboard package with the hand illustrated print on it!!!

Here's a good old pamphlet that lists out the various specialty types of sewing machines of Singer that's used to manufacture everything from belts to corsets to cycle saddles to embroidery to hosiery to leather etc!! Also here were some old magazine ads and paper banners of Singer Sewing Machines!

There were some adorable dolls too and miniature figurines! This is by Steinfeldt and Blasberg - Princess in Germany in 1893. The best part is that it has movable parts that makes the toys look like they're stitching! The toys still work!!! This miniature set of tiny little sewing machine & mannequin is almost about 3" tall!!!

Few incredible things here include a customized sewing machine that looks like a lion, Queeen Victoria's daughter's machine etc! The customized machine has its case like a lion, with the lion face and front legs over the needle part. The body and the hind legs of the lion encompass the body and wheel section of the sewing machine!

A Pollack and Schmidt machine made in Germany in 1865 was the machine gifted to Queen Victoria's first daughter Vicky, who was the wife of Fredrick, who was the wife of Frederick, who was the crown prince of Prussia!

This was the original store front in early times, which is now carefully set up within the museum, with all the banner, ads, boards etc. The other is the Nov 1965 edition of Vogue Patterns.

The oldest machine here is the Barthelemy Thimmonier of 1829. The era when even the manual is hand drawn and hand written! I was definitely overwhelmed!!! It was raining by noon on that day and I was not really sure if I wanted to set off in the rain. But I'm glad I did!

TO GET THERE:
Nearest Tube station: Tooting Bec

Timings: Open on the first Saturday of every month from 2pm to 5pm
Entry Fee: Free
Ph: +44 20 8682 7916

Sewing Machine Museum (London - UK)

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