page_title: List of sewing machine brands
section_title: Active sewing machine brands and companies
hierarchical_section_title: List of sewing machine brands / Active sewing machine brands and companies
caption_attribution_description: English: Wood engraving image of the Singer Sewing Machine of 1851.
context_page_description: This is a list of notable sewing machine brands and companies. A sewing machine is a machine used to stitch fabric and other materials together with thread. Sewing machines were invented during the first Industrial Revolution to decrease the amount of manual sewing work performed in clothing companies.
  The main household manufacturers are Baby Lock, Bernina, Brother, Janome, Juki, SVP Worldwide and Aisin Seiki— a Toyota Group company.
context_section_description: Bernina – privately owned international manufacturer of sewing and embroidery systems. The company was founded in 1893 in Steckborn, Switzerland, by a Swiss inventor Fritz Gegauf.
  bernette  – a brand of the BERNINA Textile Group.
  Brother – Sewing machines company in Japan. In 1908, Established Yasui Sewing Machine Co. for sewing machine repair service, the predecessor to BROTHER INDUSTRIES, LTD., in Nagoya. The first product marketed under the Brother brand was launched in 1928, Designed for making straw hats. Succeeded in mass-production of home sewing machines in 1932. Launched S-7300A NEXIO the world's first electronic feeding system in 2015. Brother Industries also develops and sells garment printers (printers used for garment and fabric printing).
  Feiyue Group
  Janome
  Elna – Swiss company which mass-produces sewing machines. Elna began operations in the 1940s. In the late 1940s and 1950s, an increased demand for sewing machines in the United States transpired, and Elna machines were imported into the U.S., as well as other sewing machines from companies in Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Sweden.
  Juki
  Merrow Sewing Machine Company
  PFAFF Industrial
  SVP Worldwide – private company that designs, manufactures and distributes consumer sewing machines and accessories around the world under following brands:
  Singer – American manufacturer of sewing machines, first established as I. M. Singer & Co. in 1851 by Isaac Merritt Singer with New York lawyer Edward Clark.
  VSM Group – (Viking Sewing Machines), formerly named Husqvarna Sewing Machines
  PFAFF Household
  Tacony Corporation – Baby Lock a Tacony brand.
  Toyota  – Aisin Seiki
  Union Special – American industrial sewing machine company based in Huntley, Illinois
  Sailrite – American industrial and home sewing machine company based in Columbia City, Indiana.
  Fucen Sewing Machine Co. Ltd - supplier and manufacture all types of Industrial Sewing Machine Products.
caption: An 1851 Singer sewing machine
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