This particular model, the 160990 (which also came in a 160991 variation), was manufactured for the European and British market (and by extension, the British Commonwealth) in Switzerland.
#AUTOMATIC ZIGZAGGER FOR SINGER K017 HOW TO#
How to sell these older, increasingly out-of-date but still reliable machines to a public hungry for the newest postwar technology, not some dated, 1920s piece of junk?Ī wide variety of zigzaggers, just like a wide variety of buttonholers, were produced by Singer, to be sold all over the world. And Singer still had thousands of old-fashioned straight-stitch machines leftover from before the War. The machines were popular, but still very expensive. The side-to-side motion of the needle and the front-to-back motion of the machine allowed various types of decorative zigzag-stitches to be created. These newer, postwar machines worked by having the needlebar jerk back and forth, from left to right as the machine stitched from front to back.
One of the new improvements was sewing-machines that could produce decorative zig-zag, slanting stitches, something unheard of before the war, with all prewar machines being ‘straight-stitchers’, performing a standard, straight lockstitch. This is a Singer Automatic Zigzagger which I purchased today:Īs sewing-machine technology improved significantly in the postwar years of the mid-1950s, with the the end of rationing (which in the United Kingdom, lasted twice as long as the war itself!), countries like America and the United Kingdom could start producing better and more advanced consumer-goods than ever. I never thought I’d get my hands on one of these, but wonders never cease.
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