Small Wonders: Antique Miniature & Children’s Sewing at the Custom House Maritime Museum in New London

Machines from the collection of John P. Desjardins

You are invited to join us on Saturday, July 12, for the opening of a new Community Collections exhibition, Small Wonders: Antique Miniature & Children’s Sewing Machines from the collection of John P. Desjardins.

Invented in France in 1829 — a mere four years before the New London custom house was built — the sewing machine revolutionized how clothing was made, changing it from a labor-intensive hand process to something far faster and easier. By 1851 Issac Singer developed the first version of our modern machine.

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