Dexter Sewing Machine Co.
Chicago 14, Ill.
First posted on Twitter, May 29, 2019 @quilts4veterans
Dear Dexter MFG, no longer in existence in Chicago, Illinois. Thank you. In the 1960s you had a mail order hand stitcher that was "not a toy" but was finely engineered. Your stitch directions teach hand sewing stitches, to be made with your machine. Thank you. It mattered.
Like the Singer Model 20, which was marketed as both a toy and a light duty household machine (they are not toys), the instructions included are the founding blocks for sewing knowledge. In art, if you can't draw in pencil, you can't accomplish oil painting. In sewing - If you can't make hand stitches or basic stitches with the simplest of machines, you will be overwhelmed by electronic computer sewing machines. What all that hardware is doing, is trying to think for you. Do it yourself. Sew. Be a Tailor For Your Life.
My father, U.S Army, 8th Infantry, Korean War, knew how to sew by hand. He did it himself unless he wanted to give me something to do-like hem his pants he found at a thrift store. Being humble is not a bad thing.
@SINGERCO @BrotherSews go back to the basics. IN USA
@SINGERCO I actually have the Singer equivalent hand stitcher from the 70s, late 60s maybe. Made in Brazil. Shame on you. Isaac Singer did it here in the US before he ran to Europe because of too many wives, or whatever he was fooling about. Elias Howe was from Massachusetts.
and Connecticut. Bridgeport Connecticut. Elizabethport New Jersey. United States of America.
@SINGERCO we built your business, do it here.
My father's line traces back to physicians in Ireland. They came here. My maternal great-grandfather was the engineer on the London Bridge, but came to CT to work for George Westinghouse because Westinghouse was brilliant. Sam Cook came here. The US is still the best. Do it here
One of my friends in high school is the great-great granddaughter of Paul Revere. Yes, Paul Revere. We have the genes, the brilliance, the experience, IN THE USA. The melting pot has been cooking for a while.
@SINGERCO @BrotherSews Don't give American sewing to China. Do it Here
@SINGERCO @BrotherSews As the US is engaged in wars, perhaps a new one with Iran, Russia over Venezuela, we are creating more American Veterans. They need, not only quilts and socks, but jobs. DO IT HERE. BE AMERICAN- WE created you
@SINGERCO !
China is an ally of North Korea. and Russia. No matter what chocolate cake this
@POTUS thinks he serves up, he is siding with enemies over our own country. US Vets remains have not been returned. We are still at war.
@SINGERCO Be American, where you were created.
You see, we are falling into "sides". And sorry, not sorry, but if NK is not going to return our Veterans' remains, I'm not buying things made by their ally China. I already gave up Russian pigments. I Pledge Allegiance.. to the USA
so,
@SINGERCO @BrotherSews (founded in Japan) and any other sewing machine company, I have my MADE IN USA DEXTER SEWING MACHINE. And that's all I would need to make anything I need. BUY AMERICAN
(my hand sewing needles are by John James brand, from England- but that's okay, because my grandmother was Welsh, and her mother's name was James, and she married Sam Cook who was the brilliant British engineer WHO CAME HERE)
oh and one more- Free-Westinghouse was a sewing machine company- so Sam Cook worked for Geo. Westinghouse, and gee, I have a second cousin named Georgia Free. You see,
@SINGERCO , it all started in the USA and you need to do it here.
Because they paid for the Freedom of every one of your employees through the years and all their families,
@SINGERCO .Pick a side. Do it here. Do you remember blueing? That went on machines because it was the same as the Army rifles and you didn't have to switch out to make both?
No,
@POTUS , it is NOT okay for you to agree with North Korea over anything before backing up an American citizen. No, it is NOT OKAY, for NK to take their time to return the remains of our American soldiers
You are no longer great
@SINGERCO . You are walking the line of treason. It does matter, just like Dexter Mfg. of Chicago, Illinois mattered, and matters still.
My mother would have bought this at Sears and Roebuck where both she and I worked for a time. She would also not want any American soldier left behind in NK.
The Singer Mini was made in Brazil, and not in America.
Update: 6-1-19 "Re: American Sewing Machine Companies
I have resolved my issue with sewing machines made outside the United States. They become "American" when they come through customs, and are accepted as being for sale within the United States. It is "point of original sale", in a way, but not, for me, because of the date. The world we live in has international sales, and a certain number of machines come here and are then "American". I have not bought any machines from other countries directly as personal imports. As Judy on TreadleOn would say- That's my story and I'm sticking to it."
