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Just an old post cuz business daddy don’t want new videos from me anymore ..Credit: created by “Mike Radjabov”
Apr 21, 2025 10:07 PM
SomebodythatIusedtonope
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Just an old post cuz business daddy don’t want new videos from me anymore ..Credit: created by “Mike Radjabov”
ghettosoak
Crazy how nature do that
manwithspeckeledspecticals
Sweat shops missing in this animation. 🙄
badgerZ505
I changed the needle in my sewing machine and it quit working. I was just about to toss it when I saw a similar video. It made me wonder…turns out the new needle was too short and not reaching low enough. Changed it out and now it works.
ddubya42
bloxxing
they don't want new vids from *anyone*. perhaps try https://s3nd.pics/
pomax
Now rename it to sowing machine. There was a vowel shift for a reason, people.
ooglakkerman
As a leather worker who enjoys the saddle stitch, I scoff (snort) at the lock stitch and it's weakness. Still, if clever folk had not figured out the sewing machine... it would all still be manual stitching these days.
Dabnyfiddlestuffer
That is a variation of the chain stitch. Not a lockstitch, Lockstitch uses a single hook not a double one in the demonstration.
DutchCraft2050
This is what i need on Imgur.
PoppyBee
Still fucking witchcraft if you ask me LOL ;-)
xo66nt
i see this, yes. I have seen other diagrams too. But i still don get it.
TungstenOrbital
IAlwaysUpvoteLowBudgetCreativeWork
swedeonamoose
Pretty sure my old cast iron chonker works on mostly magic at this point since i dont think anyone that has ever owned it has done any maintenence on it.
clarkWhogotsanity
Most of those old ones just need a bit a oil every now and then and a good cleaning once a centry
swedeonamoose
Good thing i got my modern backup just in case, good ol 60s husqvarna.
clarkWhogotsanity
Yea I have 3 commerical ones in storage
yn44367
My mom is a retired upholsterer. Very good and accomplished. Her work was on TV and she did work for local celebs etc. She found lots of stuff in rich people’s couches. Anyway. One time she sewed through her finger nail into the bone and my dad who is handy but hates blood had to disassemble the machine with her in it. Thats it. That’s the story.
WhatAreYouTalkingAboutEh
I was always confused as to how a piece of yarn can pass through a mechanical axle, only by seeing one in real life I could see the connection doesn't need to be perfect, so there are two pieces they connect like a thick Philips screw driver and head, but there's play between them and no place for the string to snag, the mechanism applies tension to the string to pull it back and it finds it's own way through the mechanical axle connection, pretty cool
lightfoot2
magic
hipifreq
Highly recommend you go to YouTube and look for "The Secret Life of the Sewing Machine". The whole.series is well worth a watch.
Condor3615
For some reason, this was very relaxing.
Drosera
Okay, but mine has a bobbin, so how does it work with 2 threads?
ooglakkerman
The lock stitch mechanism (before lock stich with shuttle) shows that - but a bit too quickly.
This video is excellent for a description. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og1hM8iS22Q
DragonBjorne
TheOhioGuy
Wonderful.
CrapsMcgee
That's a LOT more pokey looking than mine
salunatics
I have seen this post, and several variations, many MANY times and still can't wrap my head around it.
Redshadow09
same
xaviar3000
Congratulations, you aren’t a witch. Sewing machines run on black magic created by witches in the 1800s, when they decided to create a revolutionary tool to make everyone’s lives better so people would stop hanging them
ElbowDeepInUserSub
Pulling loops through other loops is illegal.
cousteau
I have apparently upvoted this post already, and it was posted 1h ago.
ItHappenedInThe20thCentury
yep. I stopped counting how many times I've seen and slowed down and paused and rewinded this. Still to no avail.
MenloPart
It is all fun and games until the thread breaks, and the whole seam falls apart.
ooglakkerman
and those of us leather workers who use the saddle stitch watch with smuggly.
cousteau
It's funny because apparently it must've kept my upvote from the last time you uploaded it.
icantbelieveistillhavetoprotestthiscrap
No matter how many times I watch this my brain utterly refuses to process it. It's actually pretty frustrating.
friendsofsandwiches
And this is technology from the 1800s
Timesarrows
The first truly practical sewing machine is attributed to a French tailor from the Lyon region, Barthélemy Thimonnier . It was in 1830 that he filed the first patent for his "sewing machine" also called the sewing mechanism. https://jolilab.fr/en/blogs/laboratoire-creatif/histoire-de-la-couture?srsltid=AfmBOoplxy3FHm29065JJ653AHLpMzPfwivTPCgS3OWXaTzliuhlLLKw
FarkasMacTavish
NO BUT HOW DOES IT GO BEHIND THE AXEL IT CAN'T BE FLOATING IN AIR
jackpkmn
The C piece isn't actually attached to anything. It's got a retention ring to keep it from falling out that holds it against an arm that pushes it around. It's loosely fitted into the arm so that it can slide forward and backward to let the thread slip around it. Here's some pictures of the arm in the back, the C piece and bobbin and the whole thing assembled /a/ehtPmm5
FarkasMacTavish
but the C piece has that sticky-outy bit in the center that the string is going BEHIND.
jackpkmn
The string goes around behind the entire C piece not through the center. The shaft is what the bobbin locks onto.
Timesarrows
if this gets more widespread views the gop/maga will be advocating to change the sewing machine name to Freedom Fry Machine
FeloniousMonk13
Yknow i consider myself a fairly mechanical sort, I can build houses, wrench on cars, all kinda shit. This right here fucken baffles me a bit tho ngl.
Snow44444
Same. I consider this, and automotive differential operation, some sort of magic that I can fix yet never comprehend.
Mezinov
You'll notice they spend time and detail on every mechanism but the lock stitch without shuttle - because the only reason the thread doesn't become hyper entangled with everything is black magic.
CptJohnYossarian
What baffles me is that such complex, non-rigid component movements can be made to work so reliably.
DamnedIfYouDo
Yeah, I'm an engineer who spends a significant amount of time converting my visual thoughts into 3D CAD models just so other people can understand what I'm thinking, and this throws my brain into a loop of confusion.
IncoggnitoMode
Well what you don’t see in the slack being pushed down to create the opening that the hook can grab.
xerolf
cant push a rope, has to be all friction.
chordaeyourtendineae
My college physics professor used to say this to us all the time. I loved it.
arumunus
My mom used to do shuttle tatting back in the day without even looking at the shuttles or her work. Her hands would just fly like it was second nature and she'd make lace booties for babies, bonnets, butterflies, necklaces, ect. Beads included.
I can barely get by on a single stitch crochet.
Textile work is so belittled but my GOD is it a difficult craft.
somethingnotyettaken
This one actually makse sense to me! I've seen videos like this before and watched them a dozen times and still just been confused.
smax410
Think of it like the opposite of pulling the string off a bag of charcoal.
LadyNetrex
Gearboxes are magic to me. I get it kind of, but still, magic!
TsubakiTragic
Years ago my Ex asked me to service her sewing machine. I took the covers off, looked inside, put the covers back on and told her "Let's get it professionally serviced".
IHaveGreatKittenRecipes
Same for me and my mother's old Singer. I'm sure I *could* fix it, after a couple years of research and buying an entire new machine's worth of parts to replace the shit I break in the process, but how's about we go pay the witch doctor his fee and get it done right the first time.
Rivalyn
Not shown: 800 stitches per minute
astrangehop
IIRC Singer's first demonstration was Sewing a simple dress pattern vs seven professional seamstresses and he completed it in half their time.
DonRobertson
I've seen this and others like it a bunch, and over 40 years my brain still cannot get how its all happening either. I can rebuild just about anything put infront of me, but this baffles me.
rbudrick
I just dont get how the spinning hook gets right in the loop of thread every time.
SmartAssWithAKeyboard
The thing that *always* gets me is a *person* conceived of, and then proceeded to *build* this.
TheDoctorCrankenstein
And they did it all without CAD or computers. The first of this type of sewing machine (lockstitch) was made in 1846.
SmartAssWithAKeyboard
Any sort of clockwork is always fascinating to me. If you not familiar, check out Karakuri Ningyo - Japanese "robots" from the 17th century.