Threading the Needle: Sewing in the Machine Age

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Threading the Needle: Sewing in the Machine Age
New exhibition traces the development of the domestic sewing machine from the 1850s to the 1970s

San Francisco – For thousands of years, hand sewing with needles and thread made from various materials remained unchanged. When the sewing machine was first introduced to American homes in the 1850s, it was heralded as a laborsaving device that would transform the domestic lives of women everywhere. Sewing clothing and household linens, once a time consuming, never ending task, no longer had to be painstakingly completed by hand. The popular and influential Godey’s Lady’s Book soon coined the sewing machine “the queen of inventions” and declared that every family in the United States should own one.

This exhibition celebrates more than one hundred years of sewing through historical sewing machines, pattern illustrations, and a variety of notions from sewing boxes and sewing birds to needle cases, chatelaines, and pincushions.

Images from the exhibition are available for download at: http://www.flysfo.com/web/page/sfo_museum/about/press_images/exh-sewing.html

Threading the Needle: Sewing in the Machine Age is located in Terminal 3, Boarding Area F from Saturday, March 10, 2012 through Sunday, August 5, 2012. The exhibition is located post-security and is only accessible to passengers ticketed for travel through Terminal 3. There is no charge to view the exhibition.

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