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Finish Seams, Trim Dressing Tables & Lamps, Edge Chintz & Waterproof Fabrics the old-fashioned Singer Pinker accessories are desirable tool for any sewing room. Above Left: Singer Hand Crank Pinker #121379 Above Right: Singer Pinking Attachment #121021 (Both styles are sometimes available in our shop.) Have you ever heard of a SINGER Hand Operated Pinker or Pinking Machine before? Manual is suitable for 9 more products: 2808 - list of parts sewing machine 2818 - list of parts sewing machine 2852 - list of parts sewing machine 2858 - list of parts sewing machine 2859 - list of parts sewing machine 2860 - list of parts sewing machine 2868 - list of parts sewing machine 2809 - list of parts sewing machine 2810 - list of parts sewing machine. Manuals and User Guides for Singer 6038. We have 2 Singer 6038 manuals available for free PDF download: Manual, Lnstruction Book Singer 6038 Lnstruction Book (106 pages). The sewing machine manufacturer Singer offers manuals for all models at various prices. Simply use their 'Consumer Products' section of the website to locate home machine manuals. Meanwhile, the other companies listed above typically have most of the manuals people are looking for on their own websites. Model Download Link; Singer 15k, 66k, 201k, 99k, 185k, 327k, 328k, 329k & 404k Singer 15-88, 15-89 and 15-90 Singer 66k Singer 99 and 99K Singer 117 Featherweight.
These manuals are scans taken from original Singer manuals that have been converted to Adobe PDF format for viewing/printing. Some of the original manuals are nearly 100 pages and the resulting files can be rather large, even when compressed into PDFs.
If you will right-click the links below and choose 'save as' you can store these files on your own system. This is usually better than trying to view them within your browser.
Machines:
We also have manuals forIndustrial machines.
- 12K (3 MB)
- Singer 12K 'New Family', Instructions for using machine and attachments (Form K2); 12pp.
- 15-30 / 15-87 & generic 15 class machines (617K)
- 15-30 / 15-87 & generic 15 class machines
- rotated for printing(617K) - 15-90 (5MB)
- Reversible Feed, Oscillating Shuttle, For Family Use. Here is a high-res manual: 15-90 (50MB) Manuals provided by John Merritt.
- 15-91 (5.3 MB)
- 115 (4.5 MB)
- 'Instructions for using Singer Sewing Machine No. 115
- lock stitch, for family use' Form 8255, May 1915 (32pp). - 127 & 128 (2.7 MB)
- 192 Spartan (900 KB)
- Instructions for Singer's budget model (Form K6349), 4 pages.
For more detailed instructions, see literature for the 99 (to
which it is very similar). - 201 (6.2 MB)
- 221K Featherweight (1.1 MB)
- The bare-necessities Featherweight manual.
- 221K Featherweight (10 MB)
- Instructions for using Singer Portable Electric Sewing Machine No. 221K, Rotary Hook, Reverse Feed, for family use, plus 'Instructions for using attachments etc. which may be purchased separately' - this includes: the feed cover plate (for darning) and embroidery. Dated November 1951 (Form no. K5710).
- 221-1 Featherweight (9 MB)
- 'Instructions for using Singer Portable Electric Sewing Machine 221-1 (Lockstitch, for family use with foot control). Form No. 19657.' Undated. It would have been originally supplied with American machines.
- 222K Free-arm Featherweight (12 MB)
- Dated November 1955 (Form K5969). Including how to use the attachments. 96pp.
- 301 (5.7 MB)
- 319K (16 MB)
- Instructions for using the Singer 319K automatic swing needle sewing machine (1957 - 108 pages). Before computerisation, embroidery stitches had to be achieved mechanically. This zigzag machine has a set of levers on the top which, in combination with the 30 supplied fashion discs (flat cams), manipulate the byte of the needle to form dozens of decorative stitches. There was a free-arm version (320K) and together they represent probably the last of Singer's rugged, 'all-metal' domestics.
- 327 (4.7 MB)
- Instructions for using the Singer 327 Sewing Machine. 32 pages.
- 401 (14 MB)
- Singer 401 'Slant-o-matic' zig-zag sewing machine - instructions for use; Form No. 4101; dated 1960. Slant needle machine using 'Special Discs' for decorative stitching. For electric or treadle use. Announced as 'the world's first automatic with a slant needle and gear drive...'. (96 pages)
- 404 (3.8 MB)
- 411G (5.3 MB)
- 'World's first automatic that produces not only the conventional lock stitch, but also a single thread chain stitch which can be used for basting seams . . . ' -manual courtesy Bill Holman of the Vintage Stitchers Family of Groups
- 431 (7.9 MB)
- 503 (9.1 MB)
- 66 (5.6 MB)
- From 1929
- 66-18 (13 MB)
- For using the Singer Electric Sewing Machine 66-18. (Provided by Jens Parks in honor of his mother.)
- Vibrating Shuttle (9 MB)
- For the Singer Vibrating Shuttle (VS) machine and its attachments, supplied by the Kilbowie factory; Form No. 1443; dated 1891 See Singer Vibrating Shuttle #1
Attachments & Accessories:
- Blind Stitch Attachment (4.6 MB)
- Singer 'Famous' Buttonholer Models C and D (1.3 MB)
- Manual and Parts List courtesy of David Jones
- Lowshank Buttonholer Model 160743 (2.3 MB)
- Buttonhole Attachment Model 121795 (4.6 MB)
- Singer Buttonhole Attachment for Lockstitch Family Sewing Machines (Provided by Jens Parks in honor of his mother.)
- Buttonhole Attachment Model 121795 (1.2 MB)
- Older, poorer quality scan of the above.
- Professional Model Buttonholer (1.5 MB)
- Edgestitcher (2 MB)
- The Edge-stitcher: Singer attachment instructions; 4pp; 1916.
- Even-Feed / Walking Foot (7.2 MB)
- In two languages!
- Flat-Work Darner (1.2 MB)
- Foot-Bar Attachments (5 MB)
- 'Directions for using The Singer Manuf. Co.'s 1888 (Foot-bar) Set of Attachments' for the Improved Family and VS2 machines. It's a manual for the first puzzle box (which was patented in 1889); this is dated 1889. The ruffler and tucker are very early styles (patented 1888).
- Needle Threader (153 K)
- Singercraft Guide Number 2 (1.4 MB)
- Zig-Zagger (3.8 MB)
Reference Works:
- Singer's Sewing Skills Reference Book (28 MB)
- Singer's Reference Book for Sewing Skills. Information on your machine, its attachments, and how to use them. (Provided by Jens Parks in honor of his mother.)
Wiring:
- Wiring (402 K)
- Contains Featherweight-specific, and generic, wiring diagrams
You will need Adobe Reader to view or print these files. You can download it here.
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