How a sewing machine works - Animagraffs

[@trb4316]

Who was the genius that came up with the idea in the first place? This is a masterpiece of engineering. 😎

[@pantac4493]

There’s another video on KZbin with the history. A few inventors failed, singer modified what existed and made it what it is today

[@norbertmatzke3203]

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[@vancouvermacbookrepair3967]

This is amazing technology. When I think about it it seems it's impossible a machine can sew without the needle going all the way through like with hand sewn stuff.

[@musicianhayd]

It came to him in a dream. Literally, he dreamt of getting stabbed by natives with a spear that had a hole in the tip, and then woke up to invent the sewing machine.

[@notscarsadminassistant9305]

If you think that version is something, you should see how it works on my embroidery machine, where the hook doesn't reverse, but continues to rotate in the same direction continuously, and still the thread doesn't get wrapped around a shaft turning the hook.

[@franceleeparis37]

Only the mind of a genius could have come up with this contraption... and it revolutionised cloths making to a point where no one ever wonders how extraordinary this technology is..

[@astaiannymph]

I think there were probably a lot of people who attempted to make a machine and failed, but most of the failures helped push the technology forward. Not to take away anyone's achievements, but I know that's how it works in my field of theoretical science: lots of average people have some good ideas, and they might be small but they add up!

[@biggibbs4678]

@@astaiannymph another academic pushing socialism

[@grinreaperoftrolls7528]

That’s actually complicated. There’s a french dude who had his factory burned down by people who thought automation would take their job. There’s a dude who ran out of money before he could capitalize. And an American dude where this design came from (I think)

[@VICDOG]

I almost lost my mind trying to figure it out and I watched other videos and it made it worst and then... I found this video! You have saved my sanity 🙌

[@marionforge2769]

Same. My grandma is a sewer and when I was a child, I have so many questions.

[@DannyGu33]

I'm glad i wasn't the only one lol

[@alan4sure]

@ISitOn MyArm same with me!

[@erikmarkus7467]

well, i want to say that this was the same for me... but i can't it still is the same for me! how in the heck does the bobbin levitate? it needs to be spinning on an axis, how in the world can a thread go completely around the axis??? im still lost....

[@chriss740]

@@erikmarkus7467 The key thing is - the bobbin is 'floating'. Imagine holding the bobbin in your closed hand, and pulling the thread through the gap in your fingers; the bobbin is constrained (loosely) by your hand and yet, it rotates without sitting on an axle. It's the lack of any fixed axle that allows the thread from above to completely wrap around it. If the bobbin sat on a protrusion, that wouldn't be possible. Your mind tends to want to think of the bobbin being on some sort of 'axle' to let it rotate, but it can rotate without that as long as it is constrained around it's outer perimeter.

[@username4294967296]

The first video that I have seen that shows everything correctly and clearly. Thank you.

[@fatitankeris6327]

I bet a 50's ad would've been better at explaining, like with car ingeneering...

[@gmsunshine]

I agree that it’s correct but I don’t think it’s clear. The changing/rotating perspective complicates the demonstration of the mechanics.

[@engpasev]

Diffenetly not a clear visual explaination. To much rotating/orbit cam and too complex wireframe 3d model.

[@bashkillszombies]

It doesn't explain how it captures the thread, there's still hand waving magic of it just ejecting thread downwards to capture. And it also doesn't show you how it passes around, if it is on an axle that axle would snag the thread.

[@MarkWarren-com]

@@bashkillszombies It explains that the oscillating shuttle hook is half of the circle and the bobbin driver, the piece connected to an axle, is the other half. The thread passes between the gap between the two pieces.

[@mariebrand7380]

76 years old and I may be beginning to get it! Thank you

[@peterjansen7929]

Only 64, but the same here! Anyone not initially puzzled by the mysterious working of these machines must either be clueless about geometry or a bigger genius than Einstein. A machine performs sleight of hand magic, almost 20 times a second. What a wonder of engineering!

[@mdzaid5925]

Hello sir, How are you?

[@kudosbudo]

@@mariebrand7380 this is the second time I've looked up how they work as I could not remember the visuals. I always forget the lower case rocks instead of rotates around the bobbin. I marvelled over this again.

[@dereklam1225]

0:18 and especially 0:38 : the two gaps that I spent hours searching for that nobody else shows. Thank you for restoring my sanity.

[@animagraffs]

EXACTLY. lol. There seem to be many older 2D visualizations floating around that miss the entire point of the whole mechanism. It's absolutely crazy-making. I had to clear it up, once and for all!

[@dereklam1225]

@@animagraffs My biggest gripe is that everyone shows the bobbin driver and shuttle hook as one piece, so the drive shaft is fixed to the shuttle hook, the string can't pass it, and people get migraines. I can't thank you enough for clearly parsing these apart.

[@raphi01]

You're completely right

[@StitchSWearShantiSingh]

hi @@animagraffs , Can I use part of the video for illustration in my video. You can checkout my channel its related to Sewing and Sewing Machines

[@mehill00]

No other video shows how the thread can slip around the bobbin. I kept thinking “but there’s an axel...how does the thread magic through the axel!” Thanks for the great visualization.

[@Aelita3575]

I was so freaking curious about how this worked for *YEARS* because my grandmother was a seamstress before retiring. I was like, "Does the bobin somehow thread the needle when it pushes through? How does it freaking tie together?" But now this diagram clears it all up. It actually makes sense. I would always ask my grandmother, and she was always like "I don't freaking know. I just know how to use it."

[@jacksparrowismydaddy]

I know right? mystery solved :)

[@TripAMD]

Wow...i finally get it!!! Its been a long mysterious road trying to wrap my head around this contraption. This animation was the only thing in the world that could've ever made it happen. And i actually found it! Thank you, this journey has finally come to an end!

[@robertandrewww]

Man that’s hilarious, it truly does feel like I’ve completed a long awaited quest.

[@RandomMan1]

My mom was a professional seamstress, costumer, upholsterer, and just about everything to do with fabric. I grew up sewing, and I'm a total nerd who needs to know how things worked. For 35 years I couldn't wrap my head around how the bobbin was held in place without blocking the thread. This video rocks.

[@The1stDukeDroklar]

Same here. Have pondered this for decades and always ended up saying it's freakin impossible! Now I know the forbidden knowledge 😂

[@morkovija]

glad we all made it here. maybe it's the question they ask at the gates of engineering heaven

[@josephdestaubin7426]

Same here man, same here.

[@envitech02]

When I was a kid I lived next to a tailor using her sewing machine everyday. I have always wondered how it work. Now 40 years later, I understand, thanks to you.

[@FinsaneLorist]

As a kid, I just thought the needle punches and thats it :D

[@AzurBaumi]

Excellent video. Finally clearly visible where the top thread slides along. A corresponding video for the rotary hook would be awesome!

[@neonblkhole]

sewing machines have always been an enigma to me. this video makes it seem so obvious, yet still ingenious. I'm sure it took a lot of work to make such a clear and detailed animation. thank you🥺

[@robertscudder7856]

You have no idea how long I have racked my brain trying to figure out how it works. Thousands of pictures, hundreds of countless hours, drawings in doodles. But nothing came close to explain it until I saw this video. Thank you so much. Now it won't drive me crazy anymore.

[@peterjansen7929]

Thank you for the first real explanation of something that I would have believed impossible if I hadn't seen it happen. This has been puzzling me for half a century! After your explanation, I now find that the problem seems at least partly equivalent to the question how someone could be made to appear to be skipping with a rope while sitting in a rocking chair. The rope has to stop on the floor for a moment, the chair has to rock over it and the rope must then be made to continue its motion. The whole trick, if I follow your explanation correctly, is that the bobbin isn't attached to anything and that it is held not in one but between two things that are likewise unconnected. And I now understand why in the early history of mechanical automata their display was regarded as the performance of magic tricks.

[@vidiia]

this is a clear explanation of an ingenious system. I always wondered why you could snip the top thread after you were done stitching - it was because as long as there's at least a little bit of thread through the needle, every single stitch is a lock stitch. Amazing.

[@bandbporter]

You should always backstitch a couple of times before you end and snip the thread

[@Rognaut]

This actually makes sense to me. Thanks!

[@LamanodeManolo]

The is the one. The one single video that explains the entire floating shuttle hook concept in a comprehensive manner. T h a n k y o u !

[@redfailhawk]

This is incredible. I’ve always wondered this, and never realized the stamping motion of the tensioner had anything to do with it. And this has really explained my old machine’s issues, too! Now I know why it had tension issues and got jammed underneath,....

[@eastsussexbeesandwildlife5801]

That's one of the best explanations I've ever seen, I had to slow it right down though to fully take it in (must be my age). Now I understand. Great video. Thanks so much.

[@petroskaneas1880]

The best animation video to explain how it wotkks.thank you.

[@azamataydarov25]

I always had a question how sewing machine works after this video that question found the answer thank you so much!

[@rc6251]

For decades, two problems have consumed me. One is how a physical brain can have a subjective sense (e.g. pain) and the other is how a sewing machine makes the stitch. I was sure I would figure out the former before ever understanding the latter. However, thanks to this video, I think I finally get how the sewing machine works, not that I could ever build one. The key problem for me was how the top thread loops the bobbin with the axle of the bobbin in the way. I thought that the bobbin might float and there was a gap, but everyone I asked that I thought would know said, "No, that is not the way it works." I would lie up at night, thinking my visualization skills at geometry were substandard since I just couldn't see how it could work without bypassing the axle. No other video I saw even mentions the necessary gap, which is the KEY idea. Even the popular Veritasium's video on this topic seems to gloss over this KEY point - the floating bobbin. This video makes it clear. I can get my first good night's sleep in 52 years tonight. Thank you.

[@animagraffs]

lol praise be!

[@ederpachecoherrera3590]

I had the same experience, also I thought the Veritasium's video could answer the question of the axle. But this animation, was the one that explained it all to me. Finally!

[@christiemills2804]

Thank you so much for this video!! I just got my first sewing machine and could not understand why you have to thread the machine “and” the bobbin. 🤣 I can carry on with my life now!! 🙏

[@hotdognl70]

Just saw your P51 video, looked at your page hoping to see more warbirds. Instead watched this. Very simple gem of work, thank you!

[@static-san]

I've wondered for so long how the top thread went around the bobbin! Thank you!

[@Shabazza84]

Took me 40 years to understand this magic. Thx.

[@paulerickson1906]

Excellent illustration.

[@PrincesaLunez]

I watched another video before this out of pure curiousity of this engineering genius and all the comments were just "I was expecting to learn from this but I feel like I lost" kind of comments lol because it didn't explain nothing. This video was perfection, especially compared to the last I watched lol

[@freedomhouse4721]

One of the best human invention.

[@justincase2281]

Best illustration I've seen of how a machine works. Excellent. Thanks much!!

[@SewSewLive]

Who would actually thumbs down this video?? 😂 It’s the perfect illustration to actually seeing how a stitch is formed.

[@vamcmag]

Thank you! I have been looking for something like this for years! Wonderful!

[@ArunUdai]

Amazing video. First time I have understood it all

[@babblebrain4963]

This has perplexed me since I was 8 years old and I struggle to understand how to operate anything I don't understand the practical function of so I can use machine but could not learn how to set my bobbin ( grandmother, sister,home economics teacher,and seamstress friend all tried to teach me with simple practical application all failed) I think that with this video I can make it stick because before I would not be able to think of steps I take because I was not understanding what happened below and therefore hyper focussing om ideas theory and confusion! So thank you very much

[@okbridges]

Singer 15 shuttle and bobbin. Nice animation. The Singer 15 and the many zig-zag stitching machines derived from the Singer 15 do not use gears in the drivetrain for the bobbin. They use cranks and connecting rods.

[@RedstoneFox1595]

Simple design efficient execution. Truely a masterpiece of engineering

[@philipeisenberg6984]

Possessor of an amazing vision who created this. Kudos.

[@adrianghandtchi1562]

I think I’m finally getting it. So basically it twists back and forth, one side catching the other side releasing as it goes under and the bottom string just feeds through the loops while it does so from the center of the rings. Performing small loops.

[@BrianFedirko]

thank you so much for this. I have not been able to wrap my head around this mechanism my whole life... 56 years of it... and now I do. wow.

[@itsjustrenee1320]

Wow fascinating and great animation. Thank you.

[@moiraann7413]

Very KEWL! Now I completely understand, especially since I am a very visual learner. 🤩

[@marcosdasilvacosta723]

I'm 37 yo now! Finally understood, thank you!!!

[@userGGG702]

Great video, and the invention of bobbin still wows me today

[@billrogers9230]

I think I have been waiting to see this mechanisn for 50 years. I have tried to look closely at seconds 9 and ten to try to grasp how and when the shuttle hook catches the thread. I just can't make out the point of capture or the exact mechanism. I feel closer to my goal than ever before but I still don't understand the how and at least know the what. Thank you for your extraordinary work. I am a visual learner and you have given me a great gift. If you have nothing else to do post an enlarged and slowed graphic of the magical seconds.🤗

[@peterjansen7929]

I ran this video at quarter speed from start to finish and only just manage to make sense of it at that rate. If you understand the rest, just do the same for the part that is too fast for you. The animation on Wikipedia is incomprehensible at any speed!

[@Ben4A]

I have to compliment your audio

[@Topo842]

I'm watching it working yet I still think is magic

[@infantnelson9356]

So awesomely depicted. Amazed.

[@dennisneo1608]

There really some amazing human beings out there. What an incredible invention.

[@allisonberringer4283]

Wow that is super cool!! I have a new appreciation of my good old Singer!!!

[@ElTiano21]

The rest of the world sleepless at night googling: “when will this pandemic end?” “Will there be a vaccine soon?” Me at night: “How does a sewing machine work?”

[@matthewgoodman7588]

I'm glad I'm not the only one.

[@johnakaoldguy3158]

I have been battling with a sewing machine making some masks. Nice to finally know what’s happening under the hood that is driving me absolutely crazy every time the @&#$#* thread breaks over and over and yes 😳 over and ... well you got the picture. 😡🤬😷. I need a good heavy 🔨🔨🔨

[@donmiller2908]

This is the first video I've ever seen on how the magic happens. I just watched for grins and giggles but I'm glad I did. I didn't realize the machine sews with two separate pieces of thread. That would mean that stitches done by hand are much stronger and less likely to unravel. Interesting.

[@vtrofimova]

me too, and I even had sewing machine dreams last night

[@manaquriazertyuio4555]

me: I wonder if I could make it into a cnc.

[@kouak2490]

Thank you soooo much for this video !!! Thé first one which actually explains how all elements work together !!! 😁 Now I understand everything ! the only thing I was not sure about was to what the retaining ring was linked to. But watching other videos I understand it is linked directly to the chassis of the sewing machine. Congrats ! 👏👏👏

[@StinkyAra]

Thank you for sharing this great video. It would have solved the problem I had yesterday In a misunderstanding of how that whole system works. I did find the solution in another video. This is great though and very clearly shows how this machine works.

[@eyeofthepyramid2596]

The person who did this seriously had a big brain.

[@DwindlingLamp]

Excellent quality. Please do more videos on other types of sewing machines.

[@moonbear5929]

I didn't know the bobbin case rocks back and forth like that. I thought they spun round and round. How does a horizontal bobbin case work? BTW, this is the best diagram that I have seen to explain how this works. Other diagrams still had me confused. Nice work

[@orionkstorm]

Even with all my experience and mechnical engineering knowledge I still consider the sewing machine a piece of black magic. It almost defies logic and yet is an incredibly elegant device.

[@johngranato2673]

I have restored cars, boats, houses, etc. Always wondered about the operation. Genius.

[@Kuessemir]

Incredible mechanism... absolutely genius.

[@OEKakidaisuki]

Thank you for your existence!

[@alejandrobailon1761]

Exactly what I was looking for, thanks

[@paulmcwilliams8641]

This is the second video that I have pressed the like button.

[@TS-xj5mt]

Brilliant always wondered how this worked

[@natequillin4365]

Its a pretty genius piece of equipment!

[@olhamukhina7570]

It’s truly magic, amazing what a human mind is capable of

[@mcmneverreadsreplys7318]

Once I realized the bobbin 'floats' freely in it's 'nest' it all made sense.

[@learnandteach.108]

Whoever design it, he was a super genius.

[@peterjansen7929]

Indeed! Even Boston Dynamics videos about Atlas can't amaze me as much as this ingenious design.

[@dovergerald1579]

Crazy stuff! Sewing takes such skill. Pros make it look easy, wish I was that good!

[@mohammadshoykot7188]

Great Tutorial Thank you

[@g3tsiak547]

I always thought that there was a tiny little fairy doing all the magic inside a sewing machine. Now I see that it's a mechanical marvel and that makes it twice as awesome.

[@chrismalcheski9232]

What a perfect, awesome video!!!! THANK YOU! Awesome job, explains this perfectly!

[@EconaelGaming]

The most important step is the little loop forming in the top thread once it has been pushed through the fabric, so that the shuttle hook can grab it. That's why it's so hard to sew very dense fabric, because the friction doesn't allow the loop to form.

[@capedoryus]

I love this animation. For real I would marry it I love it that much. I would love a tiny bit of insight on how did this wonder come about. I can't imagine just the dialogue yet the process of interpretation. It's that wonderful that I can't imagine mortal humans creating this little slice of heaven on earth. Overkill? No way . This is great and you did it with Blender. Rock on brothers n sisters

[@tcap7917]

I've always been amazed at this. Nicely done .

[@mohammeddanish1552]

All 3 videos best in class quality content

[@kimworkman2425]

This truly does make more sense of it

[@swmovan]

I've watched a few other videos on this, but they don't show the gap, and explain how the thread goes around the bobbin. I thought the bobbin would have to be attached to something. But I have taken the bobbin case out, and it makes sense, now. I was almost confused, when replacing it, and thought I messed it up, at first. I found an old 1-owner Kenmore machine(from 1985) for $10 at a thrift store, and it seems to work fine. I haven't done more than test it, so far.

[@sean87gt]

This has been doing my head in for days......now I get it!

[@blakeray9856]

I admit that I watched this a few times at 50% speed before I grasped the salient points. It would have been better if the stitch was shown a few times with pauses and arrows to point out all the crucial actions, with stationary "camera" angles, and from each side before all the shifting points of view started, but this is a great animation anyway. Thorough, correct, and clear. I just needed to slow it down to catch what I was missing.

[@clarethalvarez4024]

I love your channel. It's absolutely perfect.

[@guillenschwencke4444]

Great video, thank you !

[@The1stDukeDroklar]

That is absolutely ingenious. I have been wondering about this for decades. Finally had to know the forbidden knowlege 😂

[@josephdestaubin7426]

Honestly I'm 52 years old never sewed in my life but for most of my adult life have wondered about this little piece of magic. I can now die in peace. 🙂

[@beetle7710]

I had to watch this video so many times but I think I finally understand!

[@guydanielclotilde4861]

Outstanding....

[@thetruth3322]

That was an eye opener for me.

[@blackbirght]

Finally a great explanation!

[@alocin110]

Great upload! Thank you for the explanation. I liked it.

[@tuluksvui747]

Brilliant bit of engineering

[@infinityTamilan]

Finally find this amazing technology

[@CollapsedMass]

I'm not alone, others had the same question. Thank you!

[@datamike00]

i had no idea how a sewing machine works, but this looks like rube goldberg. I can't believe it works reliably (I know it

[@shivakumarnagamangala4230]

Indeed...the master piece of invention..Amazing ..that brought fashion world..the clothing..

[@kazervids8828]

Now I finally understood the magic behind such item

[@gengarwarrior6802]

This was very important information

[@rextransformation7418]

Subbed just for this video alone. Now will browse their channel!

[@dhanlitozi184]

So there are 2 thread, that's why my brain can't understand how it's possible when the needle pierced and released through the same hole. Genius

[@shahishnusureshkumar248]

you only uploaded 4 videos and got 33.000 subscribers it is incredible

[@grahamthebaronhesketh.]

Genius I never knew that!

[@garyha2650]

Genius animation, appreciated

[@maunster3414]

Now I understand, thank you.

[@deftsketches458]

Brilliant mechanisms