History
The advent of the sewing machine led to an idea known as a “quilting machine,” which made its debut in 1871.
The first quilting frame and machine consisted only of two bars that allowed the user to move the quilt and the frame beneath the machine to quilt straight, parallel lines on the fabric. By roughly 1877, the design had been modified, and began to look similar to the design quilters now know as a longarm quilting machine.
Before electricity, the operator used a hand crank to move the machine along the rails and over the fabric.
Almost 30 years later, the designs and patents for quilting machines had changed drastically.
While the Depression era caused a decrease in the interest in sewing machines and an increase in hand sewing, the quilting machine still managed to take on new and exciting designs. During the past 20 years the longarm sewing machine has become a popular and familiar concept to quilters.
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