Category: Sewing History

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Toyota sewing machines?!

Yes, Toyota. The company best known for its cars started out as an automated loom works for textile production. In 1929, the founder, Kiichiro Toyoda was tasked with investigating automobile production. The Japanese government encouraged this idea and Toyota was manufacturing its first automobile in 1936. After the war in 1946, the first Toyota sewing machine was constructed under the strict… Read more →