Who invented the zig zag sewing machine

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If you require a personal response, please use our contact page. Personal information will not be shared or result in unsolicited email. We may use the provided email to contact you if we have additional questions. See our privacy statement. Skip to main content. Blanchard's Sewing machine Patent Model buttonhole. International Media Interoperability Framework. IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections.

Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Following the success of her first zig-zag machine, she set-up a business in Philidelphia to market her inventions. Her business ventures were very successful. As a result, she could purchase back the family homestead and moved there in She continued inventing until suffering a stroke in She recieved 28 patents during her lifetime - 22 of which where related to sewing machines and sewing technology. Her other inventions included an improved surgical needle and an pencil sharpener.

Found online on Wikipedia page: Helen Blanchard. The zig-zag stitch seals the edges of a seam, making a garment sturdier. Blanchard continued to make incremental improvements in both sewing machines and needles, and in she established the Blanchard Over-Seam Company of Philadelphia.

Her company was profitable, and Blanchard was eventually able to buy back her family's lost property. Although most of Blanchard's patents relate to sewing, she experimented with other ideas, including a patented design for a pencil sharpener.

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