Name/Title
New Home, Model No. 15Entry/Object ID
1981.013.1Description
New Home began as a very small sewing machine operation with combined assets of only $350. Eventually it became a very successful company, with a huge factory employing over 700 people. According to the International Sewing Machine Collectors' Society (ISMCS), at its peak in 1906 and 1907, the New Home factory churned out 150,000 sewing machines each year. New Home made both hand-crank and treadle machines, purchased primarily for home seamstresses. The ISMCS estimates that there were 7,000,000 New Home sewing machines in operation by the 1930s..
In 1960, ninety-three years after Barker and Clark first collaborated, New Home and the "New Home" brand were purchased by the Janome Sewing Machine Company of Tokyo, Japan.
Treadle, Serial #1014930