Sew Tec

We had a wonderful summer break: Celebrated Tom’s Birthday , caught some fish for dinner, and even saw some beautiful wild pitcher plants.

Hope to hear about new and exciting projects 🙂

Every sail in this photo was made in our shop, over a span of many years.

It was nice to see this recent gathering of some of the beautiful sails, made by Sew Tec.

Technological change facilitated the trend towards centralized cutting and contract assembly. After the invention of the sewing machine, the development of cloth-cutting devices was the next important breakthrough in the mass production of clothing. Long knives, introduced in the 1870s, allowed several layers of material to be cut simultaneously. By the 1890s, cutters could slice through stacks of cloth using electrically driven blades, greatly increasing the speed of this operation.

So this morning the phone is magically working again. Weird- but good .

Somehow between this morning and afternoon, our phone is out again. AT&T is only coming by Friday. Sorry for any inconvenience, but for this week to get in touch- e-mail is the best bet. patty@sewtec.us

Thank you

Here’s a photo of the line shaft in use, in a pillow factory. We’re thinking it was sometime before WW II. Tom believes the machines are Singer 45-K ( second photo).

I guess people saw better in those days – cause I can only spot 2 tiny electric light bulbs. Maybe they had really big windows ?

AT&T came through and fixed our lightening damaged phone line.

As I said, I prefer a land line for business communication – non of those annoying shaky call phone connections. 🙂

Thanks for everyone’s patience.

Well we got the rain we wished for, but wouldn’t you know that it knocked out our phone with it. Looks like it’ll hopefully be fixed by ATT on Friday. So in the meantime please contact us only through e-mail. Sorry for any inconvenience.

I prefer having a land line for good clear communication – BUT the phone down is extra annoying !