Sew Tec is celebrating 34 years in continuous business in 2024
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Happy New Year to one and all !
Attention Customers
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Sew Tec is now accepting contract sewing for small productions.
No job too small – No minimum order quantities (MOQ)
Try out our contract sewing service before committing to large dollar, large volume factory productions.
A good way to test your market !
Back from vacation
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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 🙂
Closed for Annual Summer Break
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Happy New Year
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Sails
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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.
Happy New Year 2022
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Production Fabric Cutting through the years
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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.
Aug 1st Scratch That
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So this morning the phone is magically working again. Weird- but good .
July 31, 2021 Sew Tec phone out this week AGAIN !
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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
Line Shaft Pillow Factory
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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 ?
Old Line shaft Sewing Factory
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Tom came upon some old photos we thought would be fun to post. They are from a museum in Germany . It used to be a working factory that was turned into a museum. It looks like the sewers just got up and walked away for break time .
The machines were powered by a line shaft,running underneath the tables.This means that all the machines were driven off one motor that was probably outside the sewing room. Each machine had an individual clutch, so that the operator could control their separate machine
Friday June 18- Phone working again
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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.
Phone out this week 6/15/21
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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 !