Originally, the Pine or Janome sewing machines were made in Japan. With that company under its wings, Janome continues to impress the world and improve on the sewing machine. Wanting to get access to European design skills and technology, Janome bought Elna in 2006. 2004 saw a partnership with Elna in producing some of the latter company’s sewing machines. 8 years later they produced another first, the Memory 7 which was the first programmable sewing machine in the world.Īs the decades rolled by Janome continued to produce top-rate machines that were innovatively designed and made to help the home sewer do her work faster and more creatively. In 1971 the company made the world’s first fully automated zig zag sewing machine with a lot of features that weren’t found on other brands’ machines.

Then in 1969, they opened their first overseas factory in Taiwan. Then in 1958, it was able to get the Sears Kenmore sewing machine contract whereby destroying the White sewing machine company at the same time. In 1954 the company formally changed its name to Janome Sewing Machine Co., Ltd., and it started to take bigger strides in advancing up the sewing machine industry ladder.Īfter changing its name, the company bought out the National Sewing Machine Company, (New Home), which had merged with other American brands of that era. In the middle 30s, the term Janome became the official trademark for the company but that was still 20 years before it became the company name.ġ5 years after its founding, Pine bought its first mass-producing factory to help it make more machines and get them out to the market sooner. These bobbins looked like snake eyes and the Japanese for that term was Janome.

This new round bobbin look turned out to be the source for the company name that would come about 33 years later. This new system was a vast improvement over the long shuttle system many early pioneers used when making their own sewing machine models. 1921 was the year that Yasaku Ose started Pine Sewing Machine company and it was the same year that he invented the round metal bobbin system.

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