Their Dextra sewing machine was based on the Singer 12k model and used a 331 needle. These came out in the 1980s and sold fairly well. The most popular of their earlier machines were the Husqvarna Freja or Husqvarna Gota. Then up until about the 1930s, they kept stamping the name Husqvarna Arms Factory. The name Husqvarna Viking may be the name most people recognize as Viking was the brand name this company used in America and other countries and Husqvarna preferred that English title to their own name. What can be confirmed is that Husqvarna makes all of its products, including sewing machines in the same town it started in over 350 years ago. It is possible the lower end machines may be made in Thailand like Bernina does but again that cannot be confirmed. There is a rumor that this company sent its manufacturing overseas to China but so far nothing confirms that rumor. Over time upgrades were probably made to the factory so it could keep up with production. The original factory may still be used but that is not for certain. Husqvarna still makes its own products including sewing machines. It remained in production till 1895.įrom there, as they say, the rest is history. The next model was a reproduction of the American Weed sewing machine as Husqvarna bought the European rights to that machine. The company took the ‘if you don’t first succeed try again’ mentality and kept making sewing machines. The company’s first sewing machine, the North Star, was not a good machine and it did not sew very well. In 1872 they began retooling to meet the new purpose and in 1874 the first sewing machine hit the market. It wasn’t till almost 200 years later when the demand for rifles fell and the owners of Huskvarna started looking for new products to make. It is in this year that Huskvarna states it began operation as a rifle manufacturer not a sewing machine maker.

There was a mill house in Huskvarna Sweden that seemed to use the name Huskvarna as its business name but there is no record it is the origin of the Huskvarna company that started in the same town in 1689.Īt that time the Swedish King needed his factories to produce rifles.

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