To get ready for the auction, Bette Boellstorff’s family spent months cleaning the antique and vintage machines, careful not to damage the designs.

but sewing machines have been around for a very long time. In addition to showing how a chain stitch and lock stitch work, the video shows the history of the machines, including 50,000-year-old ...

It seems that Bette Boellstorff never met a sewing machine she didn’t like. Over more than 40 years of collecting, from ...

I’ve been sewing off and on since I was ... and it should be easy to switch out old for new. One can do quite a bit with a domestic machine, especially if it’s an older one.

Bonvicini had never sold clothing before, so she relied on her best "guesstimation" to set the price for her first sale at ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

In the Syracuse 4-H building, over 250 sewing machines were up for sale at an auction. They were collected by Bette ...

But why old sewing machines? "These older machines need a bit of work and then they run like new - the machines you get in China just are not efficient and too expensive for what they offer," he said.

Boellstorff died in 2012, and the family recently decided that her collection of sewing machines — which filled a small house on the family’s farm near Brock, Nebrasks — needed to find new ...