Patent ID: 8910583

Claim:
A method of sewing a fastener stringer having a fastener tape in which a tape surface is arranged on the same plane, and element rows which are attached to a tape side edge portion of the fastener tape, and sews a fastener stringer in which an engagement head in the element rows protrudes out of a tape end edge of the fastener tape, with respect to an attached body by using a sewing machine, wherein the sewing machine has a sewing machine foot which is provided with an element guide groove capable of inserting the element rows and a part of the fastener tape; and wherein at a time of sewing the fastener stringer, the method includes the steps of: conveying the fastener stringer and the attached body toward the sewing machine foot in a state of aligning a tape surface of a side to which the element rows of the fastener tape are attached, with one surface corresponding to a side which is exposed to an external portion of the attached body so as to superpose the fastener stringer on the attached body; guiding the element rows to the element guide groove of the sewing machine foot while bending the fastener tape in such a manner that the engagement head of the element rows rises; and sewing the fastener tape to the attached body while inserting the element rows and a part of the fastener tape in to the element guide groove of the sewing machine foot.