A closer look at the clever engineering inside this sewing machine. After the hook catches the thread, it rides perfectly between the teeth of the drive gears as it moves around the bobbin. Truly ...

This could probably be any of our grandmothers at work. George Grantham Bain Collection [PD], via Wikimedia Commons. In our hackspace, we’ve opened a textile room in the last month. We have high hopes ...

The sewing machine is a tool that many of us will have somewhere around our workshop. Concealed within it lies an intricate and fascinating mechanism. Some of us may have peered inside, but very few ...