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How I Came to Choose the Feiyue FYe355

I make bags. Webbing, foam-stabilised panels, layers of interfacing, and straight stitch through all of it. Last year I killed a domestic sewing machine on a set of interlined curtains, spent three months working out what to replace it with, and published Torque, Not Speed, nine thousand words ending in a list of machines I […]

Torque, Not Speed: How to Buy Your First Heavy Duty Sewing Machine

A black Jaguar SJ-34E Super Jeans heavy duty sewing machine photographed head-on against a black background, stitch selector dials on the right and the stitch chart printed across the base.

Note: this list is specific to 2026, and the machines and prices in it are what is sold in the EU and the UK. It is the online retail shelf, not the dealer’s. Walk into a shop and ask for a heavy duty machine and you will be shown a Singer 44-series, a Janome HD […]

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