Ephemera, Paper Things, Books about Sewing, Attachment Instructions etcetera..

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I have divided the Manuals Pages and remade them for greater ease of use..

Click on the links below for the page you need..

Singer Manuals
Other Makes Manuals
Dress and Knitting Patterns

I often find the most astonishing bits of paper in machines. Preserved nicely, birth certificates, letters of condolence, and birthday cards from the 1920s.. None of those here, but all manner of goodies nonetheless

Attachment Instructions: Originals

  • MAO118 New Yorker Attachments Good £4.00
  • MAO071 Useful Attachments (Jones and clones) Poor, no back cover £1.00
  • MAE001 Tiny Singer booklet "What Can Be Done With The Attachments" Colour, Good, £5.00
  • MAE005 IXL Scissor book -with lots of sewing tips, Good £8.00
  • MAE022 Dakota Sewing Machine Attachments booklet 16pp Good £3.00
  • MAE023 Singer Blind Stitch Instructions, Good £6.00
  • MAE026 Singer Needle threader instructions,121632 (straight) Good £1.00
  • MAE027 Buttonholer Instructions (Red Case and Black) Singer Various, £2-£6
  • MAE028 Jones Auto Buttonholer Instructions, Good £3.50
  • MAE029 Singercraft leaflet, Good £4.00
  • MAE025 Singercraft leaflet, adjusting the knife, Good £1.50

Attachment Instructions: Reproduced

Some of these are very small, I am compiling a booklet with all the minor stuff in it. If you buy an attachment that needs instructions, they will be included
  • MAR005 Singercraft set £2.50
  • MAR006 Singercraft Knife only 50p
  • MAR007 Singer Adjustable Buttonholer £5.00
  • MAR008 Singer Darning 50p
  • MAR009 Stoppax Embroidery Attachment, 50p
  • MAR015 Speedweve leaflet, 50p
  • MAR016 Singer Black "puzzle" box leaflet, 50p
  • MAR018 Singer Needle threader (2 types) 50p
  • MAR032 Singer False Hemstitcher/ Veining foot instructions 50p
  • MAR034 Mordella Embrodery Attachment £1.00

Books and Leaflets about Sewing and The Like

  • MAO076 Sew in Leather with Viking Husquvarna, Good £5.00
  • MAE002 Singer Sewing manual 1976, 48pp Good £8.00
  • MAE003 Singer Illustrated Dressmaking Guide (Orange cover), Good £15.00
  • MAE004 Singer Illustrated Dressmaking Guide (pink cover), Good £15.00
  • MAE012 Singer Sewing Book, HB 260pp 1958 Mary Brooks Picken, Good £10.00
  • MAE013 NDS Decorative stitching with the Sewing Machine 16pp Good £7.50
  • MAE014 Improve Your Dressmaking HB 112pp 1978 Ann Ladbury, Good £7.50
  • MAE010 Toy Sewing Machines Georg Rheinfelder Comb-bound repro, fair, £10.00
  • MAE017 Dressmaking Simplified (metric) PB 240pp Valerie Cock, Good £3.50
  • MAE018 English Sewing Simple Stitchery PB 28pp, VG £3.00
  • MAE016 Needlewoman and Needlecraft Magazine (pre-war) No 43, Good £5.00
  • MAE020 Singer Sewing Library 113 How to make Slip Covers PB 32pp VG £4.50
  • MAE021 Singer Sewing Library 114 How to Make cafe Curtains PB 32pp Comb binding is poor £4.00

Paper Oddities

  • MAE006 Woman's Pictorial Embroidery transfer book, Good £5.00
  • MAE007a Singer Needlework Samples ED259 1933 Singer Factory-produced book of real cloth samples Good; £15.00
  • MAE008 Needlework Books Bristol Education Committee school workbooks in lovely handwriting, Good £10 pr
  • MAE011 Singer 1951 Gala Dinner photo + envelope, 8 by 10 inches, Good £6.00
  • MAE015 Singer Pattern Paper in Singer paper bag 3 sheets, Good £3.50
  • MAE019 Simplicity Tracing Paper 6 sheets in 3 colours £2.50
My address is:-
4, The Raveningham Centre, Beccles Road, Raveningham, Norfolk, NR14 6NU. United Kingdom
01508 548137
helen@raindropkites.co.uk