Museum of sewing machines is opened only once a month, every first Saturday, but managed to get here amateur antique art finds innumerable treasures. The museum contains a sewing machine and all that is connected with them, dating from about 1850.

Sewing machine is not an English invention, the arm then put more Americans: in 1845 Elias Howe received a patent for a machine with lock stitch, five years later, Isaac Singer created a model, devoid of the usual design flaws - and it made him a rich man. By the beginning of XX century the company for the production of sewing machines appeared in the US, UK, Germany - the most developed countries. This is quite natural: the production of industrial machines require high culture, high-quality materials, extremely precise handling.

High-tech gadgets of the era, household sewing machines and often fobbed off as works of art. Surface painted and inlaid with colored metal, mother of pearl. The museum is, for example, a sewing machine, which Queen Victoria among other things, gave a dowry of his eldest daughter. The device is richly decorated with British and Prussian royal coat of arms (Princess Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise married Frederik, Crown Prince of Prussia). The needle plate - Engraving Windsor Castle, oak pedal - with imperial eagles. Boxes for needles and instructions are trimmed in blue velvet with gold monograms.

Just a collection of a small museum, located on the first floor of Wimbledon sewing machines (existing since 1945) - more than 600 mechanisms of XIX and XX centuries. Many of them - real rarities: there is a device in the style of the Victorian era art deco, sewing machine owned by (supposed) Charlie Chaplin, the famous zingerovskie machines, the name of which has long been a symbol of precision and reliability. Plant for the production zingerovskih machines existed before 1917 and in Russia in Podolsk - it produced 600 thousand copies a year.

The museum does not hide the fact that many of the exhibits are bought for pennies at flea markets. However, all the devices are in good condition, though now necks. The magnificent wooden supports under the machine so good that former owners often used them as exotic decoration of their homes.