Vigorelli Sewing Machine Manual
Does anyone know anything about this machine? Over the years I have established quite a sewing machine collection. People often say ‘hey you love to sew, take this home with you’ I have an old vintage industrial Pfaff, a handful of vintage Singers, a Singer 20U Industrial machine that I use all the time. A couple Janome machines and sergers as well as an Elna serger. This beautiful green machine was given to me when I was about 18. It’s a Vigorelli treadle machine in an amazing wooden cabinet and it is made in Italy and thats about all I know! I can’t find much online about it it was given to me as a gift from a friend of my parents, since they know i love to sew.
It belonged to a seamstress in Germany at one point and made its way over to Canada with her son. There is a website that sells a copy of the manual if you are looking for one. If anyone is interested in purchasing it please let me know, unfortunately its not being used here. Mellie Says: I have the same Vigorelli Robot machine, although mine has a motor.
I have been looking for info too. All I know about it is that it has different cams to do different stitches and the cool thing is you load them all in there at once and turn a dial to switch cams, you don’t have to manually reload them every time. The gear (made out of plastic – so stupid)that engages these cams is broken on mine so all it does is strait stitch and zig-zag, but it’s more powerful than my Singers.
You can buy the a copy of the instruction book online. Glenda Says: chucking a vigorelli? Wow, In the USA all metal machines like these heavy ones are prized because they are worth the weight, the all metal construction allows you to sew over denim or upholstery fabric. I am not sure about the loading cam one with the plastic housing, but the vigorelli I saw recently was in deed all metal – gears, rods, and all other parts too. You can’t beat it for jean quilts or patchwork like with leather etc. I can’t wait to get the money and go back and retrieve it, have it on hold. I have prized my pfaff all metal construction for so many years that finding another all metal one is hard.
Vigorelli Sewing Machine Manufacturing Dates
On ebay rececntly saw a replacement cord for erin above – might try to see if its still on. Glenda Says: oh and another thing, a sewing machine travelling salesman came to my consignment store in 2005 and traded me out of a serger and a pfaff (newer one that needed a part replaced) plus $200 supposedly for a new all metal sewing machine and when he brought me in the machine, he had some excuse about being late for another appointment so when I got time, I looked at the machine closer and he was a crook – wish I could remember his name. But it was not an all metal sewing machine. I believe it was put out by Brother can’t recall, gave it to my sister in law. That was an expensive lesson and I doubt if it was even worth the $200 I gave in cash to him, little alone – the serger and other pfaff machine.
Brandi Says: I have a Vigorelli machine, Model ZZ/A Robot that was my grandmothers which she purchased in 1954. It has EVERYTHING & WORKS great!!! It has all these cool features. It’s in a beautiful cabinet with 3 drawers. Have original instructions & even a seperate sheet that has “easy” instructions. Still has it’s original cleaning tools & oil can. Indeed it weighs a ton but amazing.
I’ve had it in storage for many years so surprised when we took it out that it still works GREAT. The light on the back even works. Just started researching so happy to find your information here. As much as I hate to admit it, I might be interested in selling to the right person. Any further information you could send my way would be great.
Says: About the machine in the picture, she looks like the stright stitch only of the Robot series. My mother has a ZZ/A and a RZ/A (rotary). Vigorelli was an Italian brand that started as a spin-off of Necchi (being Mr Vigorelli a former Necchi engineer) in the same town. The Robot model was the first one having an internal camstack that let you change up to 5 different stitch “on the fly”. Unfortunately the ZZ is a disk embedded as disk one of the camstack and is often torn by usage. About Vigorelli, I think I can remeber they bought another italian SM brand (Borletti) around 1972, then where bought by Necchi a few years later. Like Necchi, the production in Italy ceased in the ’80s and now they are all under Toyota, badging machines made by Brother first and Janohome right now.