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After my research about Karl Friedrich Gegauf, I was surprise to see that the company Bernina was made since 1893. Accordly to my sources, in 1890, Karl Friedrich Gegauf set up a work shop in Steckborn, Switzerland, to produce the monogram embroidery machines he had invented . The spring of 1893, was the date when Karl Friedrich Gegauf was able to present his first hemstitch sewing machine, which was at the same time the world's first.
The surprise was because the article from the Sewing Machine Gazette say that the first sewing machine factory in Switzerland has been started at Lucerne in 1895.
Anyway, this means that the first Swiss company did not start in 1895!
November 1895
The first sewing machine factory in Switzerland has been started at Lucerne, under the title,
" Schweizerische Nahmaschinen Fabrik "
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Swiss Sewing Machine Museum
LOCATED IN THE CENTRE OF THE TOWN OF FRIBOURG IN A VAULTED 12TH CENTURY CELLAR, THE SWISS SEWING MACHINE AND UNUSUAL OBJECTS MUSEUM PRESENTS PIECES FROM AROUND THE WORLD, RANGING FROM THE SEWING-MACHINE TO THE IRON AND THE MECHANICAL VACUUM CLEANER.
The museum offers a collection of over 250 sewing machines from the 19th and 20th centuries, used in households but also in the shops of fabric and leather artisans. Rediscover household methods used in Switzerland and elsewhere over the past two centuries.
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Sewing Machine Museum
A passionate sewing machine collector presents his finds at an old factory site on the St. Jakob pilgrimage trail.
Roni Schmied found an old sewing machine in the trash at the age of 11. A passion was aroused and his collection now encompasses several hundred machines. When the collector ran out of space at his apartment, he opened a sewing machine museum at the Pilgersteg factory site, a protected monument.
Here visitors can admire his collection of treasures. From simple models to ultra-complex machines from different countries, from tools to status symbols and from industrial machines to toys – all are works of art.
www.zuerich.com/sewing-machine-museum
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