June 13 Sewing Machine Day

Observed annually on June 13 is Sewing Machine Day. English inventor, Thomas Saint, received the first patent for a design of a sewing machine in 1790. This day honors the invention of the sewing machine. It is hard to imagine having to sew things together by hand, stitch by stitch.

In 1874, William Newton Wilson found Saint’s drawings in the London Patent Office, made adjustments and built a working model. This model is currently owned by the London Science Museum.

Walter Hunt invented the first American lockstitch sewing machine in 1832. John Greenough patented the first sewing machine in the United States in 1842. Happy Sewing Machine Day.