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Singer Featherweight Freearm 222 models

The pinnacle of Featherweight design – all the standard features plus a Freearm facility and lowering feed dogs for freehand embroidery, crammed into the basic FW configuration. Unfortunately these groundbreaking machines were just too expensive to manufacture economically and production ended after a relatively short period. As befits their status at the top of the tree, all my 222 machines are sent air express and all have rebuilt 110-volt motors and a one year guarantee .

 

We are proud to offer the following specially selected models  
Updated
March 6, 2010

Click on the small image for a selection of detailed pictures

 

EJ 913304
Made: 1954
Condition 8+

Price: $1100
including next-day
FedEx delivery

 

Can you live with a machine which isn’t cosmetically at the top of the tree?
If so, this could be the Freearm Featherweight for you.
Don’t get me wrong, this is no disaster, but we do have noticeable thinning – that’s thinning not disappearing – of the front decal on this freearm machine.
Paintwork is good with just the normal number of light pin marks on the base, none extending through the protective lacquer into the actual paint itself.
Chrome is perfect.
Remember, all my 222 machines are supplied with re-built 110-volt motors, a two-year guarantee and the price includes FedEx Priority shipping to your door.
Good condition original box with no odor.
Machine comes with a range of attachments/feet, a bound photocopy of the original full-size handbook and a packet of Schmetz needles. Fully cleaned inside and out, serviced and sew tested before leaving the workshop. Electrically tested for your safety. Pictures are of the actual machine. Any bright marks are from the flash - all flaws are always described in full.
Price includes comprehensive insured air shipping to your door.
This machine. as with all other Featherweights I sell, comes with three vital pieces of special documentation. 1) A certificate giving Singer's official statement of manufacturing date. 2) A guarantee that the machine contains no modern reproduction parts. 3) A dated certificate of electrical safety
According to Singer's production records this machine was born on September 10, 1954
Code: F496

EM 238747 
Made: 1957
Condition 9-

Price: $1200
including next-day
FedEx delivery

 

This machine almost made it into the exclusive condition 9 Club.
But, on close inspection, there’s the very slightest nick out of the rear decal on the extension table. It’s something you probably wouldn’t see without a close inspection.
The machine is otherwise certainly top class with superb high-gloss paintwork and just the very lightest of the inevitable pin marks to the base.
Chrome is perfect, of course, and just another thing that goes towards making this a superb Freearm Featherweight able to grace a collector’s shelf or just a seamstress’s workroom.
And, yes, like all my 222s it will have a totally-rebuilt 110 volt motor ready to plug in and sew, with two-year guarantee.
Good condition original box with no odor.

Machine comes with a range of attachments/feet, a bound photocopy of the original full-size handbook and a packet of Schmetz needles. Fully cleaned inside and out, serviced and sew tested before leaving the workshop. Electrically tested for your safety. Pictures are of the actual machine. Any bright marks are from the flash - all flaws are always described in full.
Price includes comprehensive insured air shipping to your door.
This machine. as with all other Featherweights I sell, comes with three vital pieces of special documentation. 1) A certificate giving Singer's official statement of manufacturing date. 2) A guarantee that the machine contains no modern reproduction parts. 3) A dated certificate of electrical safety
According to Singer's production records this machine was born on February 26, 1957
Code: F498

ER 022545 
Made: 1960
Condition 9-

Price: $1250
including next-day
FedEx delivery

 

 

Here’s a Freearm Featherweight with a definite plus.
It carries the fabled Big Red S badge fitted to the machines during the last 18 months of production.
I’ve rated this model a 9- on my condition chart for there is just the faintest thinning to one line at the very rear of the bed. 
Other than that the decals are superb, as is the paintwork with an absolute minimum of any pin marking and only a match head-size chip to the tough protective layer. It looks as if this has been professionally repaired at some time in the past and the base is as smooth as silk.
Like all my 222 Freearm machines this comes with a fully re-built 110-volt motor ready for the North American market and carries a two-year guarantee.

Like all 222s, this machine comes with Singer’s graduated stitch plate and the advantage of the removable bed and lowering feed dogs for freehand embroidery
Chrome is perfect.
Good condition original box with no odor.
Machine comes with a range of attachments/feet, a bound photocopy of the original full-size handbook and a packet of Schmetz needles. Fully cleaned inside and out, serviced and sew tested before leaving the workshop. Electrically tested for your safety. Pictures are of the actual machine. Any bright marks are from the flash - all flaws are always described in full.
Price includes comprehensive insured air shipping to your door.
This machine. as with all other Featherweights I sell, comes with three vital pieces of special documentation. 1) A certificate giving Singer's official statement of manufacturing date. 2) A guarantee that the machine contains no modern reproduction parts. 3) A dated certificate of electrical safety
According to Singer's production records this machine was born on March 15, 1960
Code: F499

EL 177485 
Made: 1956
Condition: 8+

Price: $1100
including next-day
FedEx delivery

 

 

 

 

Let’s get the bad news over with first – don’t worry, there’s so little of it, it won’t take long.
It concerns the decals. There’s just a little thinning in-line with the needle at the front and rear; also a little light thinning on just one line at the front and rear. 
The decals on the extension table are perfect and we have, perhaps, more than the usual light pin marks on the base.
None of these extend through the protective layer into the paintwork itself.
Chrome is perfect.

Remember, all my Featherweights get a complete service, adjustment and overhaul during their workshop time, and the 222s benefit from a re-built motor to Singer’s original US 110 volt specifications – just like having a new motor.
Good strong box, original of course, complete with accessory tray.  
Machine comes with a full range of attachments/feet, a bound photocopy of the
original full-size handbook and a packet of Schmetz needles. Fully cleaned inside and out, serviced and sew tested before leaving the workshop.
Electrically tested for your safety. Pictures are of the actual machine. Any bright marks are from the flash - all flaws are always described in full. Price includes comprehensive insured air shipping to your door.
This machine. as with all other Featherweights I sell, comes with three vital pieces of special documentation. 1) A certificate giving Singer's official statement of manufacturing date. 2) A guarantee that the machine contains no modern reproduction parts. 3) A dated certificate of electrical safety

According to Singer's production records this machine was born on March 2, 1956

Code: F480

EJ 617938 
Made: 1954
Condition 8+

$1100
including next-day
FedEx delivery

 

This machine so nearly made it to the coveted 9  condition bracket. But on very close inspection there is just the slightest thinning on one line of the front decal.
So, despite the absolute minimum of light marks on the bed, we’ve added the dreaded minus sign and adjusted the price accordingly.
Like all 222s, this machine comes with Singer’s graduated stitch plate and the advantage of the removable bed and lowering feed dogs for freehand embroidery

Chrome is perfect. And, remember, as with all my Freearm machines, this comes with a totally re-built 110-volt specification motor with its own two-year guarantee.
Good condition original box with no odor.
Machine comes with a range of attachments/feet, a bound photocopy of the original full-size handbook and a packet of Schmetz needles. Fully cleaned inside and out, serviced and sew tested before leaving the workshop. Electrically tested for your safety. Pictures are of the actual machine. Any bright marks are from the flash - all flaws are always described in full.
Price includes comprehensive insured air shipping to your door.
This machine. as with all other Featherweights I sell, comes with three vital pieces of special documentation. 1) A certificate giving Singer's official statement of manufacturing date. 2) A guarantee that the machine contains no modern reproduction parts. 3) A dated certificate of electrical safety
According to Singer's production records this machine was born on March 31, 1954
Code: F508

EJ 912692
Made: 1954
Condition 8+

Price: $1100
including next-day
FedEx delivery

 

The paintwork really gleams on this fine machine, but we do have some thinning of the decal on the extension table  over around an inch and a half – please note that’s thinning not disappearing. 
The usual light marks on the bed, of course, but nothing that extends through the protective coating into the paintwork beneath.
A car dealer would call this an honest machine ready for another 50 years of work.
Remember, all my 222 machines are supplied with re-built 110-volt motors, a two-year guarantee and the price includes FedEx Priority shipping to your door.
Good condition original box with no odor.
Machine comes with a range of attachments/feet, a bound photocopy of the original full-size handbook and a packet of Schmetz needles. Fully cleaned inside and out, serviced and sew tested before leaving the workshop. Electrically tested for your safety. Pictures are of the actual machine. Any bright marks are from the flash - all flaws are always described in full.
Price includes comprehensive insured air shipping to your door.
This machine. as with all other Featherweights I sell, comes with three vital pieces of special documentation. 1) A certificate giving Singer's official statement of manufacturing date. 2) A guarantee that the machine contains no modern reproduction parts. 3) A dated certificate of electrical safety
According to Singer's production records this machine was born on September 10, 1954
Code: F507

EP 542365
Made: 1959
Condition: 8+

Price: $1100
including next-day
FedEx delivery

Great paintwork on this machine and, like on all my Featherweights, the chrome is perfect.
The reason it drops a little down the condition scale is some decal-wear on one corner of the extension plate.
That’s it - otherwise the machine is in really pristine condition with just the lightest of pin marks visible on the bed.
All the usual Featherweight 222 attributes, of course: the lowering feed dogs for freehand embroidery; the graduated stitch plate and, most important of all, the slide-off bed for freearm use.
And, just a reminder, as with all my 222 Freearms this machine comes with a totally re-built motor to Singer’s original 110-volt US electrical specification.
It’s ready to plug in and sew.

Good strong box, complete with accessory tray.  
Machine comes with a full range of attachments/feet, a bound photocopy of the original full-size handbook and a packet of Schmetz needles.
Fully cleaned inside and out, serviced and sew tested before leaving the workshop.
Electrically tested for your safety. Pictures are of the actual machine. Any bright marks are from the flash - all flaws are always described in full. Price includes comprehensive insured air shipping to your door.
This machine. as with all other Featherweights I sell, comes with three vital pieces of special documentation. 1) A certificate giving Singer's official statement of manufacturing date. 2) A guarantee that the machine contains no modern reproduction parts. 3) A dated certificate of electrical safety

According to Singer's production records this machine was born on September 22, 1959

Code: F506

EK 633406  
Made: 1955
Condition: 8+

Price: $1100
including next-day
FedEx delivery

 

One of the earliest 222 models to come off the Singer production at the main factory in Glasgow, Scotland, this Freearm Featherweight has survived the years well with just a tad of thinning over half an inch on the rear decal.
| Paintwork is great with just the inevitable light pin marking on the base and the chrome is as bright as it was all those years ago.
This is a fabulous little machine ready to go to work in the hands of the seamstress or the quilter or simply to sit on a collector’s shelf to be admired.
Just a reminder, all my 222 machines are supplied with fully re-built motors (about the only part to get tired over the years) and allow me to give a full two-year guarantee.
Good strong box, complete with accessory tray.  
Machine comes with a full range of attachments/feet, a bound photocopy of the original full-size handbook and a packet of Schmetz needles.
Fully cleaned inside and out, serviced and sew tested before leaving the workshop.
Electrically tested for your safety. Pictures are of the actual machine. Any bright marks are from the flash - all flaws are always described in full. Price includes comprehensive insured air shipping to your door.
This machine. as with all other Featherweights I sell, comes with three vital pieces of special documentation. 1) A certificate giving Singer's official statement of manufacturing date. 2) A guarantee that the machine contains no modern reproduction parts. 3) A dated certificate of electrical safety

According to Singer's production records this machine was born on August 16, 1955

Code: F497

ES 525419 
Made: 1961
Condition 9

Price: $1400
including next-day
FedEx delivery

Yes, it’s a condition 9 Big Red S – don’t often see them around.
This partuclar machine has totally complete and unworn decals, superb chrome and just the lightest of marks on the bed to show that it’s had any use at all.
It comes with the correct-for-year Singer graduated stitch plate with the special anti-glare finish.
The Red S badge was introduced at the very end of the Featherweight production run and although, of course, it adds nothing to the superb functionality of the machine it’s just one of those charming little extras that add to the model’s appeal.
And, yes, like all my 222s it will have a totally-rebuilt 110 volt motor ready to plug in and sew, with two-year guarantee.
Good condition original box with no odor.

Machine comes with a range of attachments/feet, a bound photocopy of the original full-size handbook and a packet of Schmetz needles. Fully cleaned inside and out, serviced and sew tested before leaving the workshop. Electrically tested for your safety. Pictures are of the actual machine. Any bright marks are from the flash - all flaws are always described in full.
Price includes comprehensive insured air shipping to your door.
This machine. as with all other Featherweights I sell, comes with three vital pieces of special documentation. 1) A certificate giving Singer's official statement of manufacturing date. 2) A guarantee that the machine contains no modern reproduction parts. 3) A dated certificate of electrical safety
According to Singer's production records this machine was born on March 30, 1961
Code: F500

EK 635430 
Made: 1955
Condition 9-

Price: $1200
including next-day
FedEx delivery

I was tempted to move the condition rating for this fine 222 up to a full 9 but there are a couple of marks on the bed so I guess we’ll call it a 9- with the appropriate saving in cost.
Decals are totally superb, chrome is perfect and the paint has a fine rich gloss.
Like all my Freearm models, this machine comes with a totally re-built 110-volt motor - meaning plug in and sew in North America. These motors are re-built for us by an ex-Singer technician and carry their own two-year warranty
.
Good condition original box with no odor.

Machine comes with a range of attachments/feet, a bound photocopy of the original full-size handbook and a packet of Schmetz needles. Fully cleaned inside and out, serviced and sew tested before leaving the workshop. Electrically tested for your safety. Pictures are of the actual machine. Any bright marks are from the flash - all flaws are always described in full.
Price includes comprehensive insured air shipping to your door.
This machine. as with all other Featherweights I sell, comes with three vital pieces of special documentation. 1) A certificate giving Singer's official statement of manufacturing date. 2) A guarantee that the machine contains no modern reproduction parts. 3) A dated certificate of electrical safety
According to Singer's production records this machine was born on August 16, 1955
Code: F510

EJ 618018 
Made: 1954
Condition 8

Price: $950
including next-day
FedEx delivery

Here’s a great chance to own one of my Fabulous Freearm Featherweights at a bargain price.
The reason I’ve marked this down to 8 category on the condition chart is that there is some considerable fading (that’s fading, it hasn’t disappeared) of around two inches on the chain decal at the front of the bed.
Apart from that the decoration is superb, the chrome is perfect and we have great paintwork with only the inevitable light marks on the base.
Be assured that none of these extend through the protective layer (it certainly did its job on these machines) into the paintwork beneath.
Although there’s a considerable saving to be made on this machine, it has still had the full treatment in my workshops. Comes ready to plug in and sew in North America (please email me for other countries) and comes complete with all the accessories originally supplied when new
.
And, yes, like all my 222s it will have a totally-rebuilt 110 volt motor ready to plug in and sew, with two-year guarantee.
Good condition original box with no odor.

Machine comes with a range of attachments/feet, a bound photocopy of the original full-size handbook and a packet of Schmetz needles. Fully cleaned inside and out, serviced and sew tested before leaving the workshop. Electrically tested for your safety. Pictures are of the actual machine. Any bright marks are from the flash - all flaws are always described in full.
Price includes comprehensive insured air shipping to your door.
This machine. as with all other Featherweights I sell, comes with three vital pieces of special documentation. 1) A certificate giving Singer's official statement of manufacturing date. 2) A guarantee that the machine contains no modern reproduction parts. 3) A dated certificate of electrical safety
According to Singer's production records this machine was born onMarch 31, 1954
Code: F509

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