How great it would be to have a Singer Featherweight made in the very year you were born or the year you graduated from high school or college or perhaps the year your child was born. The data below, inspired by Graham Forsdyke's original reference chart, graphs the number of machines manufactured or commissioned in any given year throughout their production. This may help you determine the ease of finding machines to perhaps coordinate with personal milestones or significance.
Some years are easy, others difficult and, of course, many are impossible. Check the following chart for the possibilities of finding specific year machines. (If viewing in a mobile browser, it may be easiest to view this chart with your screen rotated sideways.)
Year
Standard 221
Freearm 222
White/Green
Tan
1933
10,000
1934
20,000
1935
40,044
1936
40,000
1937
55,000
1938
40,000
1939
60,000
1940
45,000
1941
59,999
1942
0
1943
0
1944
0
1945
20,000
1946
90,000
1947
121,000
1948
179,999
1949
110,000
1950
260,000
1951
211,000
1952
189,999
1953
160,000
6,400
1954
50,000
20,000
1955
115,000
20,000
1956
55,000
15,000
1957
110,000
15,000
1958
5,500
5,000
1959
1,500
7,500
1960
5000
10,000
1961
40,000
10,000
?*
1962
1963
1964
50,000
1965
1966
1967
1968
10,000
1969
1970
FUN TRIVIA:
Total number of black Featherweights made: 2,094,041
Total number of 222K Featherweights made: 108,900 An approximate total of all Featherweights made: 2,202,941
*Singer Sewing Machine models within the JE batch of serial numbers were made in 1961. A few tan Featherweights were included in this series, but records are inconclusive as to how many. Also, White Featherweights with serial numbers beginning in EV, EW, EY, and FA have some records that are incomplete, therefore dating and numbers are approximate.
It is our goal to remain as accurate as possible, so if more original records surface, please contact us with the source and we will be glad to update the charts.