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This book is for Husqvarna sewing machine enthusiasts. It is not an instruction manual although it is sprinkled with tips. This is a journey through history with one of the most fascinating brand names on the planet. It starts slowly in the forests of Sweden as the company builds decade after decade. Husqvarna have made some of the world's finest sewing machines. Isolated in rural Sweden their brilliant designers came up with innovative ideas that blew away traditional engineering to create amazing sewing machines and so much more. Here for the first time is how this extraordinary company grew from a late medieval weapons maker for the Swedish Crown into a household name around the world. It is an insight into one of the world's greatest sewing machine names. Alex Askaroff grew up in the sewing industry and has spent a lifetime studying and writing about his craft. He is a world renowned expert on pioneering sewing machine inventors, creating Sewalot.com which has become the premier website for antique sewing machines. For decades he has assisted and consulted with novels, documentaries and films.

A must for anyone in the hat trade. The extended full paperback version includes many of the specialist hat making machines and models. The book is crammed with interesting facts about hats from around the world. It is difficult to imagine today that Luton was once the world centre of the Hat Industry, but for centuries that is exactly what it was. There was hardly a street that did not have a hat makers or someone connected to the hat trade in it. There was Olney's who manufactured straw Boaters, Lane's, who were the block makers that made the wooden blocks that hats went onto. Brightman's in Bute Street and Snoxell's in Frederick Street. A & C Simson of Guildford Street. As the hat industry crashed, one after another these business closed as the trade that had survived fire and famine, embargoes and even Napoleon's blockades slowly changed into a university town. Age old traditions taught to children before they could run, disappeared too. Legend tells that once there were more hat businesses in Luton than days of the year. 366 businesses from large factories to outworker combines plaiting straw for boaters. Here for the first time world renowned author Alex Askaroff brings Luton's history back to life with actual stories from hat makers and much more. Come on little journey and discover why some people really were as 'mad as a hatter'.

The extended full paperback version includes unseen images and unique history direct from family members. It also has serial numbers from 1851 to 1904 and model classifications of Wheeler & Wilson sewing machines as well as oiling and maintenance. Nathaniel Wheeler and Allen Benjamin Wilson were once giants amongst the sewing machine pioneers. For a time they were known in the periodicals of the day as the Sewing Machine Kings. They battled with the other giants of the day including Elias Howe and the formidable Isaac Merritt Singer. At one point they were involved in the largest legal cases in American History. As their adverts boasted, during the 19th Century, Wheeler & Wilson really did create a stitch in time. Here for the first time is their remarkable history that shaped, not only sewing machines but American History. Brought to you by world renowned expert on antique sewing machines, Alex Askaroff. The Sewing Machine Pioneer Series are not to be missed. Alex Askaroff has had Eleven No1 New releases on Amazon.