Back in the day, mechanical sewing machines🧵 were used to make new garments and mend worn ones.👚🩳 They were indispensable tools during the Japanese Occupation, enabling people to reuse materials from old clothes, curtains and even wedding dresses during a time of severe shortages. A similar Singer sewing machine to what you see here was gifted to the museum by Mrs Grace Linus and was nearly lost to a looter during the war. Fortunately, her husband, Mr Linus, recovered it by producing the seri