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Smithsonian National Collection: Machine Quilting

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29 July 2015
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Find out which brand of sewing machine caught the eye of Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant.

Barbara Janssen, at the Smithsonian Institution, shows the patent model of a Grover & Baker sewing machine and explains how the stitch it produced helped to determine the probable date of a quilt in the collection.