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Brother Sewing Machine Museum Japan

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During my recent Craft tour of Japan, we also attended the Brother Sewing Machine Museum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_Industries

There was so much to see. I am aware that many of you are also sewing machine enthusiasts, therefore, I thought the Brother Sewing Machine Museum, warranted a post of its own. This post hopes to enable a view of some of the beautiful machines that were in this museum. I have included extra links in post in case you would like to delve further into the history.

We took a train to arrive at Harita Station, Nagoya, Japan. Then a short walk to the museum. We were given a tour around the museum which was very nicely done. We were there for a couple of hours but in truth could have stayed longer to fully appreciate all the machines they have there. I am glad I took the photos to remember a bit more of the visit. Brother has also manufactured typewriters, washing machines and printers amoung other things, but our focus was the sewing machines. The Brother Sewing Machine Museum, had a huge wall of mounted machines of all ages. Zoom in for a closer look.

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There were some beautiful antique machines of which I thought the highlight was actually this beautiful Singer 12 New Family Machine with the stunning fiddle shaped base. I managed to acquire one of these Singer 12 New Family machines some years back, which is a hand crank made at a much later date. Singer 12 Circa 1899

The Brother company acquired the UK Jones Sewing Machine Company in 1968. The Jones company made machines for 100 years, before the acquisition by Brother Industries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones_Sewing_Machine_Company

Here is a beautiful Jones Serpentine model from the United Kingdom dated 1880.

This one is an unusual Brother machine from 1928 which was used for making straw hats.

This beautiful and ornate machine from 1865 was made especially for Queen Victoria’s eldest daughter when she married the Kaiser Prince of Prussia. Silver plated with Windsor Castle depicted in the timber table. https://museum.global.brother/guide/zone/1/8?lang=en

How it came to be there, I am not sure, as there is a record of the same machine? …being sold at a Christies auction into a private collection according to Alex Askaroff’s Sewalot site…https://sewalot.com/queen%20victoria.htm

I was given the opportunity to test out one of their vintage treadle machines which was quite hilarious because it was a test of speed! It was hooked up to a monitor to measure it. I wasn’t as fast as I thought! It was fun to try.

Here are some more of the highlights of these historical machines for your perusal. Feel free to zoom in on the photos to read a bit more about some of the machines. Learn to Treadle