Who was the genius that came up with the idea in the first place? This is a masterpiece of engineering. 😎

Only the mind of a genius could have come up with this contraption... and it revolutionised cloths making to a point where no one ever wonders how extraordinary this technology is..

The first video that I have seen that shows everything correctly and clearly. Thank you.

I was so freaking curious about how this worked for *YEARS* because my grandmother was a seamstress before retiring. I was like, "Does the bobin somehow thread the needle when it pushes through? How does it freaking tie together?" But now this diagram clears it all up. It actually makes sense. I would always ask my grandmother, and she was always like "I don't freaking know. I just know how to use it."

I almost lost my mind trying to figure it out and I watched other videos and it made it worst and then... I found this video! You have saved my sanity 🙌

76 years old and I may be beginning to get it! Thank you

0:18 and especially 0:38 : the two gaps that I spent hours searching for that nobody else shows. Thank you for restoring my sanity.

Wow...i finally get it!!! Its been a long mysterious road trying to wrap my head around this contraption. This animation was the only thing in the world that could've ever made it happen. And i actually found it! Thank you, this journey has finally come to an end!

When I was a kid I lived next to a tailor using her sewing machine everyday. I have always wondered how it work. Now 40 years later, I understand, thanks to you.

Excellent video. Finally clearly visible where the top thread slides along. A corresponding video for the rotary hook would be awesome!

sewing machines have always been an enigma to me. this video makes it seem so obvious, yet still ingenious. I'm sure it took a lot of work to make such a clear and detailed animation. thank you🥺

Thank you for the first real explanation of something that I would have believed impossible if I hadn't seen it happen. This has been puzzling me for half a century! After your explanation, I now find that the problem seems at least partly equivalent to the question how someone could be made to appear to be skipping with a rope while sitting in a rocking chair. The rope has to stop on the floor for a moment, the chair has to rock over it and the rope must then be made to continue its motion. The whole trick, if I follow your explanation correctly, is that the bobbin isn't attached to anything and that it is held not in one but between two things that are likewise unconnected. And I now understand why in the early history of mechanical automata their display was regarded as the performance of magic tricks.

Took me 40 years to understand this magic. Thx.

The rest of the world sleepless at night googling: “when will this pandemic end?” “Will there be a vaccine soon?” Me at night: “How does a sewing machine work?”

The person who did this seriously had a big brain.

One of the best human invention.

This actually makes sense to me. Thanks!

The is the one. The one single video that explains the entire floating shuttle hook concept in a comprehensive manner. T h a n k y o u !

I'm 37 yo now! Finally understood, thank you!!!

this is a clear explanation of an ingenious system. I always wondered why you could snip the top thread after you were done stitching - it was because as long as there's at least a little bit of thread through the needle, every single stitch is a lock stitch. Amazing.

This is incredible. I’ve always wondered this, and never realized the stamping motion of the tensioner had anything to do with it. And this has really explained my old machine’s issues, too! Now I know why it had tension issues and got jammed underneath,....

Simple design efficient execution. Truely a masterpiece of engineering

I always had a question how sewing machine works after this video that question found the answer thank you so much!

The best animation video to explain how it wotkks.thank you.

I didn't know the bobbin case rocks back and forth like that. I thought they spun round and round. How does a horizontal bobbin case work? BTW, this is the best diagram that I have seen to explain how this works. Other diagrams still had me confused. Nice work

That's one of the best explanations I've ever seen, I had to slow it right down though to fully take it in (must be my age). Now I understand. Great video. Thanks so much.

I watched another video before this out of pure curiousity of this engineering genius and all the comments were just "I was expecting to learn from this but I feel like I lost" kind of comments lol because it didn't explain nothing. This video was perfection, especially compared to the last I watched lol

I think I’m finally getting it. So basically it twists back and forth, one side catching the other side releasing as it goes under and the bottom string just feeds through the loops while it does so from the center of the rings. Performing small loops.

Very KEWL! Now I completely understand, especially since I am a very visual learner. 🤩

Singer 15 shuttle and bobbin. Nice animation. The Singer 15 and the many zig-zag stitching machines derived from the Singer 15 do not use gears in the drivetrain for the bobbin. They use cranks and connecting rods.

Brilliant always wondered how this worked

I have restored cars, boats, houses, etc. Always wondered about the operation. Genius.

Thank you so much for this video!! I just got my first sewing machine and could not understand why you have to thread the machine “and” the bobbin. 🤣 I can carry on with my life now!! 🙏

Excellent illustration.

I think I have been waiting to see this mechanisn for 50 years. I have tried to look closely at seconds 9 and ten to try to grasp how and when the shuttle hook catches the thread. I just can't make out the point of capture or the exact mechanism. I feel closer to my goal than ever before but I still don't understand the how and at least know the what. Thank you for your extraordinary work. I am a visual learner and you have given me a great gift. If you have nothing else to do post an enlarged and slowed graphic of the magical seconds.🤗

Who would actually thumbs down this video?? 😂 It’s the perfect illustration to actually seeing how a stitch is formed.

Even with all my experience and mechnical engineering knowledge I still consider the sewing machine a piece of black magic. It almost defies logic and yet is an incredibly elegant device.

Best illustration I've seen of how a machine works. Excellent. Thanks much!!

This is the second video that I have pressed the like button.

Outstanding....

Just saw your P51 video, looked at your page hoping to see more warbirds. Instead watched this. Very simple gem of work, thank you!

Thank you for your existence!

Great video, and the invention of bobbin still wows me today

I've wondered for so long how the top thread went around the bobbin! Thank you!

Thank you! I have been looking for something like this for years! Wonderful!

Wow that is super cool!! I have a new appreciation of my good old Singer!!!

This has perplexed me since I was 8 years old and I struggle to understand how to operate anything I don't understand the practical function of so I can use machine but could not learn how to set my bobbin ( grandmother, sister,home economics teacher,and seamstress friend all tried to teach me with simple practical application all failed) I think that with this video I can make it stick because before I would not be able to think of steps I take because I was not understanding what happened below and therefore hyper focussing om ideas theory and confusion! So thank you very much

Possessor of an amazing vision who created this. Kudos.

Its a pretty genius piece of equipment!

Wow fascinating and great animation. Thank you.

So there are 2 thread, that's why my brain can't understand how it's possible when the needle pierced and released through the same hole. Genius

So awesomely depicted. Amazed.

Excellent quality. Please do more videos on other types of sewing machines.

Whoever design it, he was a super genius.

There really some amazing human beings out there. What an incredible invention.

Crazy stuff! Sewing takes such skill. Pros make it look easy, wish I was that good!

I'm watching it working yet I still think is magic

Thank you for sharing this great video. It would have solved the problem I had yesterday In a misunderstanding of how that whole system works. I did find the solution in another video. This is great though and very clearly shows how this machine works.

thank you so much for this. I have not been able to wrap my head around this mechanism my whole life... 56 years of it... and now I do. wow.

Thank you soooo much for this video !!! Thé first one which actually explains how all elements work together !!! 😁 Now I understand everything ! the only thing I was not sure about was to what the retaining ring was linked to. But watching other videos I understand it is linked directly to the chassis of the sewing machine. Congrats ! 👏👏👏

I've always been amazed at this. Nicely done .

What a perfect, awesome video!!!! THANK YOU! Awesome job, explains this perfectly!

Amazing video. First time I have understood it all

I admit that I watched this a few times at 50% speed before I grasped the salient points. It would have been better if the stitch was shown a few times with pauses and arrows to point out all the crucial actions, with stationary "camera" angles, and from each side before all the shifting points of view started, but this is a great animation anyway. Thorough, correct, and clear. I just needed to slow it down to catch what I was missing.

For decades, two problems have consumed me. One is how a physical brain can have a subjective sense (e.g. pain) and the other is how a sewing machine makes the stitch. I was sure I would figure out the former before ever understanding the latter. However, thanks to this video, I think I finally get how the sewing machine works, not that I could ever build one. The key problem for me was how the top thread loops the bobbin with the axle of the bobbin in the way. I thought that the bobbin might float and there was a gap, but everyone I asked that I thought would know said, "No, that is not the way it works." I would lie up at night, thinking my visualization skills at geometry were substandard since I just couldn't see how it could work without bypassing the axle. No other video I saw even mentions the necessary gap, which is the KEY idea. Even the popular Veritasium's video on this topic seems to gloss over this KEY point - the floating bobbin. This video makes it clear. I can get my first good night's sleep in 52 years tonight. Thank you.

Incredible mechanism... absolutely genius.

I always thought that there was a tiny little fairy doing all the magic inside a sewing machine. Now I see that it's a mechanical marvel and that makes it twice as awesome.

It’s truly magic, amazing what a human mind is capable of

I love your channel. It's absolutely perfect.

Great Tutorial Thank you

I had to watch this video so many times but I think I finally understand!

Exactly what I was looking for, thanks

The most important step is the little loop forming in the top thread once it has been pushed through the fabric, so that the shuttle hook can grab it. That's why it's so hard to sew very dense fabric, because the friction doesn't allow the loop to form.

I have to compliment your audio

Great upload! Thank you for the explanation. I liked it.

I've watched a few other videos on this, but they don't show the gap, and explain how the thread goes around the bobbin. I thought the bobbin would have to be attached to something. But I have taken the bobbin case out, and it makes sense, now. I was almost confused, when replacing it, and thought I messed it up, at first. I found an old 1-owner Kenmore machine(from 1985) for $10 at a thrift store, and it seems to work fine. I haven't done more than test it, so far.

Great video, thank you !

This truly does make more sense of it

Honestly I'm 52 years old never sewed in my life but for most of my adult life have wondered about this little piece of magic. I can now die in peace. 🙂

This has been doing my head in for days......now I get it!

Finally a great explanation!

Now I finally understood the magic behind such item

I love this animation. For real I would marry it I love it that much. I would love a tiny bit of insight on how did this wonder come about. I can't imagine just the dialogue yet the process of interpretation. It's that wonderful that I can't imagine mortal humans creating this little slice of heaven on earth. Overkill? No way . This is great and you did it with Blender. Rock on brothers n sisters

Genius animation, appreciated

That was an eye opener for me.

Brilliant mechanisms

All 3 videos best in class quality content

I'm not alone, others had the same question. Thank you!

Brilliant bit of engineering

What is this animation/graphics software suite called, please? Your design graphics are superb, thanks so much!

Thank you for sharing!!

Finally find this amazing technology

Now I understand, thank you.

This was very important information

Amazing invention.

Awesome, thank you!

Subbed just for this video alone. Now will browse their channel!

That is absolutely ingenious. I have been wondering about this for decades. Finally had to know the forbidden knowlege 😂

Always wondered, Thanks!

Indeed...the master piece of invention..Amazing ..that brought fashion world..the clothing..