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Cylinder Bed
This type of sewing machine has an increased working height and a bed in the shape of a horizontal arm. It
is especially suitable for sewing on tubular parts, such as cuffs, sleeves, and trouser legs, and also for button
sewing and bar tacking. This sewing machine is used extensively in the making of clothing for knitted fabrics.
Post Bed
• It has a raised working machine bed and is used for stitching of three-dimensional products such as shoes and
bags.
• It is used for joining of small and curved parts of a garment.
• It has special application in sewing of shoes, bags, umbrellas, boots etc.
The Feed-off-the Arm
• The feed-off-the arm machine is used where a lapped seam has to be closed in such a way that the garment
part becomes a tube.(Fig 6)

Fig 6

• They are common in jeans production where the outside leg seam is normally the type known as lap-felled
and it is joined after the inside leg seam in the sequence of construction.
Raised Bed Sewing Machine
• Raised Bed Machines is a machine where the entire machine is mounted on the top of the table. It is the basic
form for various specialized garments sewing machines such as buttonhole machines.
SEWING MACHINE NEEDLES
Function:
• To produce a hole in the material for the thread to pass through and to do so without causing any damage to
the material.
• To carry the sewing thread through the fabric and form a loop which can be picked up by the hook on the
bobbin case or looper. (Fig 7)

Fig 7

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CITS : Apparel - Fashion Design & Technology -Lesson 13-24