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.

WESTLAKE -- The owner of Cleveland's 132-year-old White Sewing Machine Co. will close its Westlake office in early 2009, ending 85 jobs here, and move its headquarters to Tennessee, the company said.

H. WHITE as the White Mfg. Co. in 1866. Ten years later it was known as White Sewing Machine Co., with 600 employees producing the White Rotary Bobbin sewing machine in a 5-story factory on Canal St.

However, there is a type of embroidery, which is quite unknown (or, in my opinion, hidden) and which is not appreciated as much as it should be: white embroidery on white cloth, which is mostly ...