June 13th is National Sewing Machine Day! Today honors the invention that has helped hold clothes together for over 170 years. On June 13, 1790, English inventor Thomas Saint received a patent for the very first sewing machine design. While Saint’s invention was revolutionary and other major designs came afterwards by the 1840s, it was Elias Howe and Isaac Singer’s sewing machine patents that made the machines accessible by the early 1850s and changed the world during the latter part of the Mark

#DYK the first sewing machine could sew five times faster than even the speediest hands? Meet the inventor who revolutionized sewing and the pioneer who improved the machine to transform the textile industry. 🧵 #NationalSewingMonth #SewingHistory #Innovation | National Inventors Hall of Fame