Singer Manuals

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Machines:

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• 12K (3 MB)
• Singer 12K 'New Family', Instructions for using machine and attachments (Form K2); 12pp.
• 15K80
• INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING SINGER SEWING MACHINE CENTRAL BOBBIN, FOR FAMILY USE
• 15-86
• INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING 15-86 (WITH ATTACHMENTS 120603) LOCK STITCH, FOR FAMILY USE
• 15-30 / 15-87 & generic 15 class machines (617K)
• 15-30 / 15-87 & generic 15 class machines
  - rotated for printing(617K)
• 15-88 & 15-89
• INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING SINGER SEWING MACHINES 15-88 and 15-89 REVERSIBLE FEED LOCK STITCH, FOR FAMILY USE
• 15-90 (5MB)
• Reversible Feed, Oscillating Shuttle, For Family Use. Here is a high-res manual: 15-90 (50MB) Manuals provided by John Merritt.
• 15-91 (5.3 MB)
• 15-96 and 15-98 (57MB)
• 15-96 and 15-98 (5MB)
• 15-125 (4MB)
• Instructions for using Singer Sewing Machine 15-125
• The Model 20 Toy Sewing Machine
• Full Page 1914 Manual
  Life Size 1914 Manual
  Revised 1926 Manual
  Singer 20-1 in German
  Sewhandy Model 20
  Adjuster's Manual for the Singer Model 20
• 24-24
• Instructions for using Singer Sewing Machine No. 24-24 (Automatic Chain Stitch) and Attachments
• 27-4
• In black and white
• 28
• The above manual, enlarged to enhance readability.
• 27K & 28K
• INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING The Singer ManUfacturing Co.'s 27K and 28K (VIBRATING SHUTTLE) Sewing Machines
• 27K and 28K
• Form K 204
• 66 (5.6 MB)
• From 1929
• 66-1
• 66-1, 1912, color
• The above in black and white. Possibly more legible, but not nearly so charming.
• 66-6
• Color manual for the 66-6. Dating from 1929, this manual is form 18368.
• 66-16
• 66-18
• For using the Singer Electric Sewing Machine 66-18. (Provided by Jens Parks in honor of his mother.)
• 66-18 - another variation of the 66-18 manual
• 99
• 99K
• 99-13
• The Singer Portable Electric Sewing machine No. 99-13, with knee control
  (Courtesy of Drew Ritland)
• 101-4 & 101-12
• 1929 manual, in color
• 101-4 & 101-12
• black and white
• 115 (4.5 MB)
• "Instructions for using Singer Sewing Machine No. 115
  - lock stitch, for family use" Form 8255, May 1915 (32pp).
• 127 & 128 (2.7 MB)
• 192K, 192K2, 192K3
• 192 Spartan (900 KB)
• Instructions for Singer's budget model (Form K6349), 4 pages.
  For more detailed instructions, see literature for the 99 (to
  which it is very similar).
• 201 (6.2 MB)
• 201K
• 201p
• 206K25
• Instructions for using SINGER Sewing Machine 206
• 221K Featherweight  (1.1 MB)
• The bare-necessities Featherweight manual.
• 221K Featherweight (10 MB)
• Instructions for using Singer Portable Electric Sewing Machine No. 221K, Rotary Hook, Reverse Feed, for family use, plus "Instructions for using attachments etc. which may be purchased separately" - this includes: the feed cover plate (for darning) and embroidery. Dated November 1951 (Form no. K5710).
• 221-1 Featherweight (9 MB)
• "Instructions for using Singer Portable Electric Sewing Machine 221-1 (Lockstitch, for family use with foot control). Form No. 19657."  Undated. It would have been originally supplied with American machines.
• 222K Free-arm Featherweight (12 MB)
• Dated November 1955 (Form K5969). Including how to use the attachments. 96pp.
• 237
• AS THE OWNER OF THE SINGER 237 you have a completely new, smooth running sewing machine which offers you a new world of sewing enjoy- ment.
• 301 (5.7 MB)
• 306K and 306W
• 319K (16 MB)
• Instructions for using the Singer 319K automatic swing needle sewing machine (1957 - 108 pages). Before computerisation, embroidery stitches had to be achieved mechanically. This zigzag machine has a set of levers on the top which, in combination with the 30 supplied fashion discs (flat cams), manipulate the byte of the needle to form dozens of decorative stitches. There was a free-arm version (320K) and together they represent probably the last of Singer's rugged, "all-metal" domestics.
• 327 (4.7 MB)
• Instructions for using the Singer 327 Sewing Machine. 32 pages.
• 401 (14 MB)
• Singer 401 'Slant-o-matic' zig-zag sewing machine - instructions for use; Form No. 4101; dated 1960. Slant needle machine using 'Special Discs' for decorative stitching. For electric or treadle use. Announced as "the world's first automatic with a slant needle and gear drive...". (96 pages)
• 401A
• 404 (3.8 MB)
• 411G (5.3 MB)
• "World's first automatic that produces not only the conventional lock stitch, but also a single thread chain stitch which can be used for basting seams . . . " -manual courtesy Bill Holman of the Vintage Stitchers Family of Groups
• 431 (7.9 MB)
• 503 (9.1 MB)
• Improved Family (3MB)
• Instructions for using the Improved Family Singer Sewing Machine, New York; Form No. 7129, July 1 1891, Supersedes Form 7006.
• Vibrating Shuttle Model 27, Number 2
• In black and white
• Vibrating Shuttle (9 MB)
• For the Singer Vibrating Shuttle (VS) machine and its attachments, supplied by the Kilbowie factory; Form No. 1443; dated 1891 See Singer Vibrating Shuttle #1

• Attachments & Accessories:

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• Blind Stitch Attachment (4.6 MB)
• B.U.K. Electric Motor
• 1930, knee control
• B.U.K. Electric Motor
• 1931, foot control
• Singer "Famous" Buttonholer Models C and D (1.3 MB)
• Manual and Parts List courtesy of David Jones
• Lowshank Buttonholer Model 160743 (2.3 MB)
• Buttonhole Attachment Model 121795 (4.6 MB)
• Singer Buttonhole Attachment for Lockstitch Family Sewing Machines (Provided by Jens Parks in honor of his mother.)
• Buttonhole Attachment Model 121795 (1.2 MB)
• Older, poorer quality scan of the above.
• Professional Model Buttonholer (1.5 MB)
• Edgestitcher (2 MB)
• The Edge-stitcher: Singer attachment instructions; 4pp; 1916.
• Even-Feed / Walking Foot (7.2 MB)
• In two languages!
• Flat-Work Darner (1.2 MB)
• Foot-Bar Attachments (5 MB)
• "Directions for using The Singer Manuf. Co.'s 1888 (Foot-bar) Set of Attachments" for the Improved Family and VS2 machines. It's a manual for the first puzzle box (which was patented in 1889); this is dated 1889. The ruffler and tucker are very early styles (patented 1888).
• Needle Threader (153 K)
• Hand Operated Pinking Machine (320KB)
• Instructions for using the Hand Operated Singer anti friction bearing Pinking Machine. (No. 121379)
• Singercraft Guide Number 2 (1.4 MB)
• Stocking Darner
• "For use on all Lock Stitch Sewing Machines, Model No. 035776"
• Turkish Point Attachment
• TURKISH POINT ATTACHMENT FOR VERTICAL NEEDLE, STRAIGHT STITCH, CENTRAL BOBBIN, FAMILY SEWING MACHINES
• Zig-Zagger (3.8 MB)

• Reference Works:

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• 1896 Singer Sewing Machine Catalog
• Machines for Every Stitching Process
• 1912 Singer Sewing Machine Catalog
• Elizabethport
• 1924 Singer Sewing Machine Catalog
• Elizabethport
• 1926 Singer Sewing Machine Catalog
• Standard of the World
• Singer's Sewing Skills Reference Book (28 MB)
• Singer's Reference Book for Sewing Skills. Information on your machine, its attachments, and how to use them. (Provided by Jens Parks in honor of his mother.)
• The Singer Student Handbook

• Service & Adjusting:

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• Improved Family Parts List
• 9W1 and 9W7 Parts List
• PRICE LIST OF PARTS FOR FAMILY SHOPS MACHINES Nos. 9W1 and 9W7
• 15-86 & 15-87 Parts List
• LIST OF PARTS FOR FAMILY SHOPS MACHINES Nos. 15-86 and 15-87
• 15-88, 15-89, & 15-90 Parts List
• 24-60 & 24-61 Parts List
• 24-62 Parts List
• PRICE LIST OF PARTS FOR FAMILY SHOPS MACHINE No. 24-62
• 28 & 128 Parts List
• 66 Service Manual
• 66-1 & 66-3 Parts List
• 99-13 Parts List
• 101-1
• parts list
• 100-2, 101-3, 101-10, 101-11
• 1927 parts list - 136 pages
• Class 101 Adjusters Manual
• 101-3 & 101-11 Ajuster's Manual
• 101-1, 101-2, 101-3, 101-10, & 101-11 Adjusters Manual
• ADJUSTERS MANUAL FOR SINGER MACHINES 101-3 AND 101-11 WITH S.U. AND S.E. MOTORS AND CARBON CONTROLLERS (For Machines 101-1, 101-2 and 101-10 with Wire-Wound Resistances See Adv. 1856)
• 115-1 & 115-2 Parts List
• PRICE LIST OF PARTS FOR FAMILY SHOPS MACHINES Nos. 115-1 and 115-2
• 128-8 Parts List
• 201-1, 201-2, 201-3, 201-4, & 1200-1 Adjuster's Manual
• 206K25 Service Manual
• ADJUSTERS MANUAL FOR SINGER ELECTRIC SEWING MACHINE 206K25 FOR COMBINED STRAIGHT AND ZIGZAG STITCHING REVERSIBLE FEED
• Service Manual for 206K25, 206K43, 306, 319, and 401
• SERVICE MANUAL FOR SINGER SWING-NEEDLE SEWING MACHINES FOR COMBINED STRAIGHT AND ZIGZAG STITCHING REVERSIBLE FEED
• 221 (Featherweight) Adjusters Manual
• ADJUSTERS MANUAL FOR SINGER PORTABLE MACHINE 221-1 LOCK STITCH, FOR FAMILY USE WITH SERIES 3 MOTOR AND FOOT CONTROLLER
• 221 (Featherweight) Service Manual
• 221 & 222 (Featherweight) Service Manual Addendum
• 237 Service Manual
• 306K Service Manual
• 306W24 & 306W25 Parts List
• LIST OF PARTS FOR FAMILY SHOPS SINGER MACHINES Nos. 306w24 and 306w25
• Wiring (402 K)
• Contains Featherweight-specific, and generic, wiring diagrams

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