Grand Avenue has seen a lot of businesses come and go over the past 40 years, but Treadle Yard Goods has been one of a handful of constants. Treadle deals primarily in fabric for people who make t ...

Pictured is my Singer treadle sewing machine dating to about 1901, previously my mother's and my grandmother's. Many inventors modified and improved sewing machines through the 1800s. Elias Howe ...

When we brought home an antique White Family Rotary treadle sewing machine from a thrift store last year, I thought it would be just like great-granny’s old Singer I’d used as a child.