Mother hands line, wandering clothing.

Departure thick seam, meaning fear of delay in return.

This is the poem in "You Ziyin" written by Tang Dynasty poet Meng Jiao. The post-80s can understand the description of the artistic conception. The post-90s have some difficulties to understand. Most of the clothes worn in the post-80s childhood were handmade clothes made by mothers or grandma. At that time, there were fashionable clothes called "ready-made clothes" that you can wear. 00 is estimated to be dizzy again in the 1980s. Most of the clothes were sewn in their own homes. It was not until the rise of the clothing industry in the 1990s that buying "ready-made clothes" became a norm.

Invention of sewing machine

In 1790 Thomas Saint (British), the inventor made the first sewing machine for leather shoes, using machinery to imitate the process of replacing manual sewing. Because the British Patent Office did not have a patent catalog for sewing machinery manufacturing at that time, his patent was included in the patent library of textile machinery and was forgotten by people for 83 years. Until 1878, talents copied this machine based on the patent and copied it in It was displayed at the Paris Universal Exposition in 1878.

In 1841, the French tailor Barthelemy Thimonnier invented and manufactured a chain stitch sewing machine with a needle and a hook. In 1845, Elias Howe (also translated as Elias Howe) also independently invented the sewing machine. In 1851, the American mechanical worker IM Shengjia invented the lock stitch sewing machine and established the Shengjia company. . Sewing machines of this period were basically hand-cranked and their productivity was not high and they could not be applied on a large scale.

In 1859, Singer Company invented the pedal sewing machine. After Thomas and Edison invented the electric motor, in 1889, Singer Company invented the electric motor-driven sewing machine. Since then, a new era in the sewing machine industry has begun.

Development of sewing machines

In 1940, the Swiss company Erna invented a portable household sewing machine with a cylindrical bottom plate aluminum alloy cast casing and a built-in motor. After 1950, household multifunctional sewing machines were further developed.

胜 Singa Company, founded in 1851, was the first company in the United States to start producing sewing machines. In the United States at that time, the production of sewing machines was second only to clocks. In 1870, there were 69 companies producing sewing machines in the United States. In 1871, the annual production of sewing machines in the United States was 700,000. By 1891, Shengjia had produced 10 million sewing machines. It can be said that in a long period of time, Shengjia Company basically monopolized the production of sewing machines in the world.

以后 After the Second World War, the former West German, Italian, and Japanese sewing machine industries developed rapidly. In addition to the companies that still produce high-end traditional household sewing machines in most European countries, most companies began to produce industrial sewing machines. During this period, Japanese sewing machine companies began to produce cheap sewing machines with government funding and sold them to the United States and around the world.

In the early 1970s, the domestic sewing machine market in advanced industrial countries had become saturated, and Japanese companies had to switch to the production of industrial sewing machines under the condition of rising labor costs. South Korea, especially Taiwan, seized the opportunity and made the sewing machine industry rise. , Production of middle- and low-end sewing machines and their entry into the international market.

In 1975, Shengjia Company invented a computer-controlled multifunctional household sewing machine, and it has been gradually used in industrial sewing machines since then. In the early 1980s, there were more than 3,000 kinds of sewing machines in the world. About 600 kinds of sewing machines are commonly used in production. So far, more than 6,000 kinds of sewing machines have been developed.

Sewing machines in China

       When the sewing machine first appeared in China, it is no longer possible to consider it in detail. I would like to see that this first rare thing must be a boiled product. In 1869, the representative of the Westernization Party Li Hongzhang visited the United Kingdom and brought back a Singh sewing machine when he returned home. The gift was given to the Empress Dowager Cixi, and the last emperor Pu Yi also gave the Queen Wan Rong a Singh sewing machine. In 1872, Shanghai's "Declaration" published a notice of Jinlong Foreign Trade "Sale of Garment Machinery". The notice said: "Several new foreign sewing machines, each with a price of 50 yuan, please contact our bank for purchase." This notice states that the sewing machine has entered China in 1872; each sewing machine sells for 50 silver, which is not ordinary. A family can afford a sewing machine like a Porsche Cayenne !!

During the Tongzhi and Guangxu reigns of the Qing dynasty, that is, from 1872 to 1900, dozens of sewing machine sales outlets established by businessmen in Britain, the United States, Germany and other countries in Shanghai alone reached dozens of stores. The first Chinese people who operated sewing machine sales and repairs also opened stores Shanghai is called Meichang Sewing Machine Store. From the 1920s to the 1930s, China entered the budding period of sewing machine production, from the Red Lion brand straw hat sewing machine of Shanghai Xiechang Sewing Machine Company in 1927 to the "Flying Man", "Bee" of Guangzhou and the " "South China", etc., all experienced the suppression of foreign capital, the difficulties of technological development, the survivors also struggled, the output was extremely limited, exposing the fragility of the national industry at that time.

After the founding of New China, the production of Xiechang ’s “Invincible” and Ruan Yaoji ’s “Flying Man” has developed rapidly, and a sales network has gradually formed throughout the country. The three-year Korean War that began in 1950 also objectively promoted the development of sewing machines, especially industrial sewing machines. The Central People's Government established the Northeast Military Uniform Factory, and ordered Shanghai to organize the development of industrial sewing machines as soon as possible in order to solve the urgent need for the supply of military cotton clothing. Under the special historical conditions at that time, this glorious and arduous task fell on the shoulders of Shanghai Huigong Sewing Machine Factory (formerly known as Shanghai Huigong Iron Factory), the first public-private joint venture in the industry. At that time in Shanghai, the United States and Chiang Kai-shek launched a "two six" bombing, the city generally suffered power outages and water outages, and production and life were difficult. In order to complete the development and production of industrial sewing machines, the employees of the "Hui Gong" factory work hard day and night. When I was sleepy, I fell aside and took a nap. Without electricity, pull the belt for production. Relying on this moving spirit, the "Hui Gong" factory completed the tasks assigned by its superiors in advance, produced the first batch of industrial sewing machines in China, and strongly supported the Korean War and national economic construction.

       After the reform and opening up, China's sewing machinery industry has risen rapidly after arduous development, which has established the status of a world sewing machinery powerhouse, and is moving from a sewing machinery manufacturing power to a powerful country.

       Today China is the world's largest producer and consumer of sewing equipment. According to the statistics of the Information Center of the China National Sewing Association, China has nearly 500 sewing equipment and parts manufacturing enterprises of various sizes and above, with an annual output of more than 8 million sewing equipment of various types, and major breakthroughs in product structure adjustments, such as integration of mechanical and electrical The proportion of chemical sewing equipment increased from 2% at the end of the 10th Five-Year Plan period to 25.04%. The proportion of computer-made sewing machines to the total output of sewing machines increased from 5% to over 36.5%. The proportion of total equipment increased from 3% to 9.5%.