Before there was the Brother DB2-B791-015, there were a few other sewing machines, both industrial and not. Initially there was a Singer Stylist 543 home/portable machine. That machine was very dependable and to this day is revisited for odd jobs, but it lives elsewhere, so those encounters are few and far between. Also, for a brief period of time, there was an old SearsKenmore home/portable machine. The SearsKenmore machine filled a gap of time when sewing was intermittent, and such a stitching device was needed on a project by project basis only. Then came the Singer 600WI*, this was the first industrial machine to activate what would become a more in depth look at sewing machines as multi-platform tools - capable of informing building process’ as much as anything else - from the most mundane of analog tools (pencil, hammer) to highly specific computer programs. The Singer opened up an infinitely expanding knowledge base to learn from, that would aid in structural/material investigations. However, without any hesitance, that work quickly became subject to the other side of industrial sewing, which is shear understanding of the tool itself. The Singer 600WI represented two sides of the table, one of which that had to do with design and production, and another which had to do with how the tool itself informs the design and function of something. This thicket of spiralling information is partly what lead to this site, and is what pushes and pulls the entries which are posted within these web-pages.

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* This industrial machine was very generously donated to the Brother DB2-B791-015 & company, before there even was Brother DB2-B791-015 & company. Thank you again and again.