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 ...

The Foot Powered (Treadle) Lathe woodworking video by Chop With Chris is a time lapse of the construction of a foot powered lathe using an antique corn auger flywheel. I use only hand tools ...

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 ...

The flywheel, along with some old sewing machine parts becomes a treadle powered lathe. There’s something so very cathartic about seeing all the wood chiseled and sawed away. That pile of ...

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.

Treadle Yard Goods on St. Paul’s Grand Avenue has collected donations of 200 or more hand-sewn baby blankets for shipment to Ukrainian refugees in Poland. The store scheduled six on-site sewing ...