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Don't treadle on me...

12/16/2012

4 Comments

 
My family and I spend a lot of time on eBay and Craigslist looking at sewing machines.  Big shock, I know!  It's what we do, it's our "thing."  Another big thing in my family is words.  We LOVE words!  Whether written or spoken, we enjoy the intricacies and absurdities of words.   We particularly enjoy discovering "new" words or creative spellings of familiar words. 

Sewing machine ads on Craigslist and eBay have been a gold mine!  Who knew there were so many weird and wonderful ways to spell "Treadle"?

For those of you who may not know, a treadle machine is the old-fashioned kind with a foot pedal that turns the wheel to make the machine sew.  The word treadle comes from the Old English word 'tredan' which means 'to tread'.  OK, that's your vocabulary lesson for the day, now let's have some fun!

Some of the more creative spellings & variations we've seen lately:
        
        Trudel 
        Truddle
        Trestle
        Trundle
        Treedle

That was fun!  And now that I've found the perfect 'trundle' machine, I need to find a 'bake-a-light' accessory box and some sewing 'niddles' to complete the set!

Dad is starting a museum of other online oddities.  So far his collection includes:
       
        chomp saw
        radio alarm saw
        Swinger sewing machine (not sure yet if it's a trudel, trundel, or trestle)

Have you spotted any of these rare products online?  We'd love to hear about them!

Happy sewing!
Barbara




4 Comments
Karen
12/18/2013 06:16:20 am

We don't want to knock these guys but they seem to come up with some doozies describing the items forsale ... LIBRARY STYLE METAL 6 DRAWER FILE CABINET DOCE-DECIBAL SYSTEM CRODS CABINET It''s a metal file cabinet for large documents, probably legal size?
Karen

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OldSewinGear
12/18/2013 10:03:03 am

Wow, that's a great one. Thanks for sharing!

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Lee
12/19/2016 10:55:20 am

Suspect this is an old fashioned (before the days of computers) library card catalog cabinet. - section of wording translated as: Dewey Decimal System Cards Cabinet

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Theresa Crawford
12/8/2022 09:28:57 am

I always search for 'sowing' and 'seeing' machines. But now I have more autocorrect fails to add to my list!

Love your blog, so much fantastic info i haven't run across anywhere else! I really appreciate your time and generosity in sharing with the world!

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