After the industrial revolution in the mid-18th century, the mass production of the textile industry promoted the invention and development of the sewing machine. 1790, the American woodworker Thomas Satterfield first invented the world's first hole first, then threaded, sewing shoes with a single thread chain stitch hand-cranked sewing machine. 1841, the French tailor B. Thimonnier (Barthelemy Thimonnier) (also known as Barthelemy Thimonnier) invented and manufactured the needle with a hook. 1845, Elias Howe (also known as Eliemi Thimonnier) invented and manufactured the needle with a chain stitch sewing machine. In 1841, French tailor B. Thimonnier (also known as Barthelemy Thimonnier) invented and manufactured a chainstitch sewing machine with a needle and hook. 1845, Elias Howe (also known as Elias Howe) also independently invented a sewing machine, and in 1851, American machinist I.M. Katsumoto [also known as Lechak Merritt Katsumoto] invented a lockstitch sewing machine and founded the Katsumoto Company. Sewing machines of this period were basically hand-cranked.
In 1859, the Katsuya Company invented the foot-operated sewing machine. After Thomas and Edison invented the electric motor, in 1889, the company invented the electric motor-driven sewing machine. From then on, a new era of sewing machine industry was created.
In 1940, the Swiss company Elna invented a portable sewing machine with an aluminum alloy casting case with a cartridge base plate and a built-in electric motor, and after 1950, it further developed a multifunctional sewing machine for home use.
Established in 1851, Shengjia Company was the earliest company in the United States to begin production of sewing machines, and at that time, the production of sewing machines was second only to clocks. 1870, the United States production of sewing machines, there are 69 companies, and in 1871, the United States annual production of 700,000 units of sewing machines. By 1891, the Shengjia company had produced a cumulative total of 10 million sewing machines. It can be said that for an extended period of time, the Shengjia Company basically monopolized the production of sewing machines in the world.
After World War II, the sewing machine industry in West Germany, Italy, and Japan developed rapidly, and most companies in Europe began to produce industrial sewing machines in addition to those that still produced high-grade traditional household sewing machines. During this period, Japanese sewing machine companies began to produce inexpensive sewing machines with government subsidies, and sold them to the United States and other parts of the world.
In the early 1970s, the market for domestic sewing machines in the industrially advanced countries was saturated, and Japanese companies, with rising labor costs, had to turn to the production of industrial sewing machines, while South Korea, in particular, seized the opportunity of Taiwan to make the rise of the sewing machine industry to produce medium- and low-grade sewing machines and put them on the international market. The world sewing machine industry has experienced the transfer from Europe, the United States to Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, since the early 1990s to China began a comprehensive transfer, the beginning of the 21st century the world has more than 70% of the production of sewing machines in China. However, 70%-90% of the domestic high-end machine market is occupied by Japanese and German enterprises. As for the middle and low-end sewing machine products, the world sewing machine industry has completed the transfer to China, and the industrial transfer has gradually extended to the middle and high-end products. With the continuous intensification of competition in the sewing machinery manufacturing industry, large-scale sewing machinery manufacturing enterprises mergers and acquisitions between the integration and capital operation is becoming more and more frequent, the domestic outstanding sewing machinery manufacturing enterprises are paying more and more attention to the study of the industry market, especially on the industrial development environment and the in-depth study of the buyers of the products. Because of this, a large number of domestic excellent sewing machinery brands quickly rise, and gradually become the leading sewing machinery manufacturing industry!
In 1890, China introduced the first sewing machine from the U.S.A. In 1905, Shanghai first began to manufacture sewing machine parts and accessories, and set up some small workshops for the production of parts and accessories.
In 1928, the first 44-13 industrial sewing machine was produced by Shanghai Xiechang Sewing Machine Factory. In the same year, Shanghai Shengmei Sewing Machine Factory also produced the first sewing machine for home use.
Before 1949, the production of sewing machines in old China was very low, with an annual output of less than 4,000 units, and the market for sewing equipment at that time was mainly monopolized by the American Shengjia Company.
In 1949, after the founding of New China, the sewing machinery industry was fully developed, and the industry went through the stage of reorganization, transformation, public-private partnership, merger and cooperation, and a reasonable division of labor, forming a number of backbone enterprises: such as Shanghai's Che, Chang, Huigong, Flying Man, Butterfly and Tianjin Sewing Machine Factory and Guangzhou's South China Sewing Machine Factory and other sewing machine manufacturers, which mainly produced ordinary household sewing machines and low-grade industrial sewing machines. They mainly produced general household sewing machines and low-grade industrial sewing machines.
The end of the 1950s, the light industry for domestic sewing machines, generalization, standardization, unified design drawings, improve the compatibility of parts and components, so that the sewing machine manufacturers continue to increase, and according to the needs of the development of sunflower fan, medical and surgical, badminton, bicycle tires and cordura splicing and other special-purpose sewing machines. According to statistics.
As of 1980 the country *** there are 56 sewing machine manufacturers, distributed in 22 provinces and cities. By 1982, China's production of sewing machines reached 12.86 million units, ranking first in the world.
By the mid-1980s, with the continuous adjustment of the market and consumer structure, the product structure of sewing equipment in the medium and low-speed industrial sewing machines on the basis of high-speed, serialization direction, electronic, computer technology has also been widely used in sewing machines. At the same time, China has also completed the establishment of the parts and components supporting system and constructed a huge sewing machine sales network. Some of the sewing machine enterprises digested and absorbed the advanced technology after introducing it from abroad.
In the early 1990s, famous international enterprises entered China one after another and set up joint ventures and wholly-owned enterprises in China.
In the late 1990s, private enterprises began to rise, and the great adjustment of the industrial structure promoted the great development of the industry, which generally formed six major production areas and bases, including Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shaanxi, Tianjin and Guangzhou.
As of 2004, China's sewing machine manufacturers amounted to more than 600, more than 1,000 manufacturers of spare parts, with an annual production volume of 14.008 million units, a gross domestic product of about 28 billion yuan, and nearly 1,000 varieties, and has become one of the world's major sewing machinery production countries.
Sewing machine categories in accordance with the use of sewing machines, can be divided into domestic sewing machines, industrial sewing machines and sewing machines located in the service industry between the two; according to the drive can be divided into hand-cranked, foot and electric sewing machines; according to the sewing stitch can be divided into imitation hand-sewn stitch, lockstitch stitch, single-thread chainstitch, double-thread or multi-thread chainstitch, single-thread or multi-thread overlocking chainstitch and multi-thread chainstitch overlay sewing machines. lockstitch sewing machines.
Types of Sewing Machines Most industrial sewing machines are general-purpose sewing machines, including lockstitch, chainstitch, quilting, overlock, and bandage sewing machines, with lockstitch sewing machines having the highest usage rate.