A new LEGO Ideas set is going to deliver a timeless household object in the brick – Vintage Sewing Machine.
The next LEGO Ideas set has been announced – Vintage Sewing Machine. BrickStability’s build won a competition on the platform and now professional designers are turning into a boxed product for release.
LEGO Ideas held a community challenge asking fans to create a brick-built celebration of a timeless object widely known and loved. Fans submitted builds of record players, music boxes, rocking horses and a plethora of other instantly recognisable items that have stood the test of time. Any ageless object that fit the theme was fair game, with the option to capture a moment in history or spark nostalgia.
The winning entry is Vintage Sewing Machine by BrickStability. This build is inspired by a classic sewing machine, complete with a working needle and accompanied by a classic pair of tailor’s scissors. It also celebrates the complicated and rather dubious history of the sewing machine.
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No one can agree on who actually invented it. In 1790, an English cabinet maker by the name of Thomas Saint received a patent for varnishes required for various uses, one of which was for a machine that could stitch, quilt or sew, which could have been the earliest version.
But then in 1846 Elias Howe was granted a patent for his sewing machine that used a lockstitch design – a type of stitch that uses two threads that essentially lock together. While he gained the patent, Howe found himself in a bitter rivalry and involved in numerous lawsuits with American sewing machine producer Isaac Singer.
Walter Hunt also became involved in the litigation. While Howe’s machine appeared to be the first of its type, Hunt had invented it 13 years earlier and simply never applied for a patent as he didn’t want seamstresses to be put out of business. So all three of them are usually credited as inventors, because sewing is messy business whether its via machines or hand stitching.
This sewing machine will go intro production to become an official LEGO Ideas model and BrickStability will receive 1% of the total net sales of their LEGO Ideas set, 10 complimentary copies and credit as the LEGO Ideas fan designer in the instruction booklet. Meanwhile the runners up who made it to the fan vote – Carousel Music Box by 2A2A, Detailed Classic Retro Television by FMDavid, Rustic Barn Lantern by cable_girl and Rocking Horse by lexie_blue – will each receive 21323 Grand Piano, 21345 Polaroid OneStepSX-70 Camera, and 10334 Retro Radio.
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