Skip to content

Buongiorno Necchi

If you are a frequent shopper at Millard Sewing, you may recognize some of these vintage Italian beauties. Each one of these Necchi Sewing Machines has spent time in our service department to get a refresh and each one has spent time in sales area being admired until despite my best efforts to keep them, someone has wanted them more than I did.

Let me tell you, for some of these, it took quite a bit of convincing before I let them leave for their new home! It’s also entirely possible that the only reason I was okay letting these go is because I have a few more of these precision classics just waiting for a moment to go through them and add them to the collection.

So why are we reminiscing about these sewing machines today? Because we recently had a chance to take the new Necchi Creator Series for a test drive and we found that we were just as much a fan of them as we are their ancestors. So much so that in a matter of days we had an order placed for some of our very own!


Discover more from Millard Sewing Center

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

1 thought on “Buongiorno Necchi”

  1. I enjoyed reading all this, being somewhat of a \”Necchi snob\”. I\’m now my little community\’s official OSMG, but Necchi is what got me started on that path. The first was an old dusty, neglected and maladjusted BV model referred to as a tailor\’s machine. Pretty similar to a Singer 31-15. It was my teacher. Today it works wonderfully, old original clutch motor and all. Next was a 1953 original BU model. It needed work, and I took it through all the adjustments and measurements possible. Even authored a tutorial on the entire upper tension mechanism because there didn\’t seem to be one out there. Next was a salmon (manly pink?) colored Julia. I had to learn about cams, microswitches, and automatic buttonholers. The plastic or nylon \”worm gear\” for stitch length adjustment is this machine\’s achilles heel. Had to learn everything about that and the complete stitch length system. Wrote another tutorial. I have since acquired three more Julias. Last in my Necchi stable is Lycia 522 free arm. Essentially a more modern BU with a free arm, but no cams. The 524 takes cams. I turn to this one when I need free arm capability. It also has the infamous worm gear that isn\’t a worm gear. Maybe I should start a blog! I have since branched out from Featherweights, treadles, triple feed compound machines, patchers, and saddlemaker machines. I don\’t inventory parts and that\’s what caused me to first order from you folks. Looking forward to visiting you when I next come to see my daughter in Beaver Crossing. Regards, Tom

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Discover more from Millard Sewing Center

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading