An unexpected grace

When I got my Textima Veritas, it was mostly for sentimental reasons - it was exactly the same model that I grew up with. I knew it was a good machine, but it's been too long ago since I used it to draw a comparison with the other machines in my sewing room. So after…

Textima Veritas 8014

A humble 1960s sewing machine from DDR... but why does it fetch £150 at auction? Textima VEB was created after WWII in East Germany by merging various local sewing machine manufacturers (largely stripped of all their machinery in post-war reparations). Notably, that included Clemens Müller and Naumann from Dresden and Singer from Wittenberge. Crême de…