This industrial sewing machine was used by Lucky Teaching Aids to produce national flags, banners, buntings and triangular pennants for the occasion of Singapore’s National Day celebrations between the 1980s and 2001. A local business founded in the 1950s, Lucky Teaching Aids started out making teaching aids such as blackboards and rocking horses for kindergartens, before becoming one of the first companies to begin mass-producing state flags in 1959, the year Singapore attained self-government. This particular model of sewing machine is a lockstitch machine that creates one of the most common mechanical stitches made by a sewing machine. It was made by Juki Corporation, a Japanese manufacturer of industrial and household sewing machines that was first established in 1938 and set up its Singapore office in 1982.
