Embroidery machines (2) c. 1927. Cornely brand ... and accessories (30), including handbook in French (AF)

See also sample book A9466-4

Sewing machine for embroidery invented in 1865 by a Frenchman named Bonnaz and manufactured by Ercole Cornely. The early ones conld work both chain and moss stitch and could sew in any direction and by 1900 models were produced which could make raised cords, double zigzag lines and do two needle braiding. As the Cornely machines were no bigger than an ordinary domestic treadle machine they were excellent for outworkers and did not have to be used only in factories. The principle used was that of the hooked needle and universal feed, with the reel of thread below the machine. In America it is known as the Bonnaz machine.

Invented in 1865 by Bonnaz and manufactured by Ercole Cornely in France. Imported bo Australia from France for Mrs Lamoureux's Sydney shop c 1927

Madame Lamourux and her small staff used French Dornely machines to embroider the designs onto evening and day dresses, and accessories such as collars, shoes, handbags, belts and coronets. Customers could select patterns from a range of designs assembled by M.Lamoureux and kept as a sample book at the salon. the embroidery was worked in silk, metal thread or cotttona and also comgined with handbeading.

Early embroidery machines:
'Tambour embroidery and the hook used in it had an important influence on early sewing machines for embroidery and for joining cloth.
In May 1804 a British patent was issued to John Duncan, a Glasgow manufacture,for a chainstitch embroidery machine which had several hooked needles. This was the first of the early attempts to produce a sewing machine which was successful and the principle was used for embroidery machines for many years.
In 1816 Joseph Madesperger of Austria invented a machine suirable for embroidery.
In 1841 a patent was taken out in England by Edward Newton and Thomas Archbold for tambouring and ornamenting backs of gloves.
In December 1844 John Fisher and James Gibbons took out a British patent on a machine designed for ornamental stitchng. It used a two-thread stitch, eye-pointed needle and shuttle. It produced almost every embroidered design. It was probably never put into practical operation but strongly affected later developments in sewing machines. (compiled by Frances Davis 1980)

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