During the Civil War, a treadle machine, as well as hand sewing, provided the extensive wardrobe needed by the soldiers. Brenda Yenke, cleveland.com, 19 Sep. 2019 His only machinery was a buffing machine and a sewing table with a treadle.Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019 The treadle model #15 is now nearing antique status, being made from 1895 to 1995. Brenda Yenke, cleveland.com, 19 Sep. 2019 Tenzi started giving sewing lessons last year, teaching the class using old-fashioned treadle machines because City of Hope wasn’t on the electrical grid. Shay Maunz, Glamour, 8 Mar. 2019 Tetrev’s father helped build out the space, which features a treadle-type pottery wheel in the window of the storefront. Caitlin Mullen, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2018 British dentists in the 1970s, when power outages were a regular occurrence, might have kept an old treadle drill in the cupboard to add fillings without using electricity. Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times, 7 June 2018 Stoppelman explained that individual warp threads, which make up the longitudinal pattern in woven cloth, are put on a roller and then threaded individually through wire heddles, which are attached to a shaft and then to a foot treadle. Annie Gentile, Courant Community, 22 Mar. 2018 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English tredel step of a stair, from Old English, from tredan