1. Singer Sewing Machines 1970s Models
2. Singer Sewing Machine 1960's Models

Singer Slant-o-matic 401A Manuals & User Guides. User Manuals, Guides and Specifications for your Singer Slant-o-matic 401A Sewing Machine. Database contains 1 Singer Slant-o-matic 401A Manuals (available for free online viewing or downloading in PDF): Instructions for using manual.

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3. Nov 02, 2017  Maybe you have heard of it: Singer's Teacher's Textbook of Machine Sewing. This edition (the best edition) was published in 1960. It's the holy grail of sewing machine manuals, particularly if you have a Slant-O-Matic from the 400 or 500 series.
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5. Jan 10, 2012  This 31 minute video is on the maintenance of my Singer 401A slant, zig zag vintage sewing machine. I now have over 588 HD videos on my channel.
6. Vintage and original Singer Sewing machine paper print ad from 1960 magazine. This is a full page ad featuring a woman (Andrea Wise of White Plains, N.Y.). She is shown in the green ball gown she sewed using her Singer Slant-O-Matic machine. Reads, 'I made this dress on a Slant-O-Matic machine (in a sewing class at Sin.

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Singer Sewing Machines 1970s Models

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Singer Sewing Machine 1960's Models

• 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

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