{"id":10457,"date":"2012-05-04T04:30:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T11:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=10457"},"modified":"2012-05-04T04:32:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T11:32:31","slug":"a-group-of-rioting-french-tailors-once-destroyed-the-factory-of-the-inventor-of-the-chain-stitch-sewing-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/a-group-of-rioting-french-tailors-once-destroyed-the-factory-of-the-inventor-of-the-chain-stitch-sewing-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"A Group of Rioting French Tailors Once Destroyed the Factory of the Inventor of the Chain Stitch Sewing Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/sewing-machine-facts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10585\" title=\"sewing machine facts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/sewing-machine-facts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/sewing-machine-facts.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/sewing-machine-facts-340x259.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1830, a French tailor by the name of Barthelemy Thimonnier patented a sewing machine that used the chain stitch; the first such machine to replicate sewing by hand.\u00a0 By 1841, he had a factory with over 80 machines and a contract with the French army for uniforms.\u00a0 However, the factory was destroyed by a riotous group of French tailors who were afraid the sewing machine would spell the end of their trade.\u00a0 Thimonnier never recovered and died pretty much penniless.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"How a Sewing Machine Works\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/how-a-sewing-machine-works\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reference<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1830, a French tailor by the name of Barthelemy Thimonnier patented a sewing machine that used the chain stitch; the first such machine to replicate sewing by hand.\u00a0 By 1841, he had a factory with over 80 machines and a contract with the French army for uniforms.\u00a0 However, the factory was destroyed by a riotous group of French tailors [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[2553,2464,2463,1112,2551,2552],"class_list":["post-10457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-barthelemy-thimonnier","tag-know-it","tag-now-you-know","tag-quick-facts-2","tag-sewing-machine-facts","tag-sewing-machine-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10457"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10638,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457\/revisions\/10638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}