The MERROW 72-D3B-2

The MERROW 72-D3B-2

Butted Seam Sewing Machine for

KNIT MATERIALS

The Merrow 72-D3B-2 industrial sewing machine is designed to sew a consistent and flat butted seam on knit fabric. Specifically suited for tubular knits, the 72-D3B-2 can also be configured to sew a wide range of textiles. Like all 72-Class Merrow machines, it incorporates an extended feed system and specially designed cutters that allow the consistent movement of sewn material across the cutting surface. The 72-D3B-2 is hand assembled using high quality steel parts within the traditional Merrow cast iron frame, ensuring a perfect butted seam, even after years of use.

The 72-D3B-2'S specially designed feed system uses an elongated presser foot,

forward positioned cutters, and an extra feed dog to ensure a perfect butted

seam on knit fabrics.

VIDEO: Click Here to See the 72-D3B-2 in action!

front back

Click Here if you would like a pdf line card for the 72-D3B-2 (1MB)

For questions contact your local agent or email us at sales@merrow.com to find an agent.

Merrow's 70-Y3B-2 Butted Seam w/ Stitch Multiplier

For Strengthening Selvages

Video: How to Multiply a Stitch on a 70-Y3B-2

The Merrow 70-Y3B-2 industrial sewing machine is a butted seam machine that has a unique non-differential mechanism that doubles the stitch count during sewing. By pressing the 70-Y3B-2's manual lever, an operator can increase the number of stitches to add strength to a seam where required, particularly a at fabric selvages. A single thread machine with cutters, the 70-Y3B-2 can operate on either a table or railway mounting, and can be configured with a number of options to meet the demands of virtually any environment, material, or application.

DOWNLOAD A PDF LINE CARD OF THIS PRODUCT (881 KB)

For questions contact your local agent or email us at sales@merrow.com to find an agent.

New Marketing Material for Merrow's Wet Seaming Solutions

Wet Seaming Solutions From Merrow
FOR USE IN TEXTILE FINISHING

The Merrow Industrial Air Motor is a standard mounting motor designed specifically for use in the wet and humid conditions of the textile finishing industry. The motor’s pneumatic system functions on compressed air, which not only creates a natural cooling process that makes it suitable for temperatures up to 250° F, but also eliminates the risk of electrical injury during operation.

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The Merrow 70-D3B-2_CNP Industrial Butted Seam Machine has been chemically nickel plated (CNP) to allow for sewing on wet fabric and protecting the machine from the damage and corrosion typical in wet textile finishing environments.

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If interested in marketing material for your website please contact nate@merrow.com and for additional images and graphics of these products please click here.

For pricing and availability please contact your local Merrow Agent, or call Merrow Sewing Machine Company at (508) 689.4095 to locate one.

We're Hiring!

as of 8/6/10 Merrow has three positions open

1. Engineering
2. Sales and Distribution Management
3. Marketing

Please send an email to working@merrow.com if you're interested (include a note and resume!)

New Internship available at Merrow for the fall of 2010

The Merrow Sewing Machine Company is a world leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of quality, high-performance, industrial sewing machines. Established in 1838, the Merrow brand is one of the most recognizable in the textile industry.

This job is available to well educated college students who are looking for an opportunity to develop international marketing skills.

Primary Responsibilities:
1. Marketing Communication
2. Copy Writing
3. Product Documentation, Phototgraphy
4. Product Research

We're looking for brains, energy and a work ethic. Everything else is optional. A 2nd language preferred (but not required). The Marketing Team at Merrow spends its time and energy protecting the trademark, developing soft & hard copy marketing material, and compiling Merrow application information.

Facts about Merrow:
1. Merrow is actively sold in 65 countries worldwide
2. the Merrow brand is known worldwide
3. Two dogs in residence (Sable and Pilot)
4. Merrow is a young, passionate and ambitious company

We are located in Fall River, Massachusetts. About 15 Minutes from Providence, and 45 Minutes from Boston. Please apply by email to working@merrow.com

A NOTE FROM A SUMMER INTERN:

From one college student to another,
As a summer marketing intern, this is what I’ve learned: Merrow is a passionate company, and an intense/relaxed environment, if that makes sense... There's no dress code, and you can be sure you'll find lots of puppies running around the office. The expectations at Merrow are simple: get the job done. You'll find that you'll have much more responsibility than at most companies, but also be doing more interesting things and getting much more experience. Merrow's got a whole lot of energy and spunk, and if you are those things too, you will enjoy working at Merrow. At the end of the summer, you will have worked hard, enjoyed some laughs, and gained a ton of real world experience.

Merrow Genuine Curved Needles

Through application and manufacturing testing, we've learned that our SDT needles outperform our D, SD, and DT needles. For this reason, as of August 2nd 2010, the D, SD, and DT lines will no longer be offered in sizes 5-8 and customers should instead order the SDT. With the SDT you get the same consistently high performance you expect from a Merrow Needle.

Remember, all of Merrow's Curved Needle models are engineered, crafted and sized to ensure that you produce an incredibly well-crafted stitch no matter your material or operating speed! To further guarantee that we can accommodate any application, we also offer specialty options such as Kooltorr and Titanium plating!

To learn more, click here to download our brochure!


Happy Fourth of July, and enjoy the long weekend!

Launch of New Travel Blog

... And I'm the new intern whose going to tell you about it, but more on me later ...

Thanks to Merrow's international business relationships the following months will be filled with plenty of traveling, working and meeting with Merrow customers, making new friends and seeing old ones, and who knows, maybe a little bit of intrigue. This blog will provide a separate space for our travel news, documenting all of our global exploits and the surprises along the way, and hopefully providing a forum for us here at Merrow to share our adventures with you and to learn about yours! Maybe there'll be a post about what its like to try the street food in Bangkok, or maybe you have some advice for us from your last trip to East Asia? Let us know!

The summer is kicking off this weekend with Charlie leaving on a 3 week trip that begins in the city of Shanghai. He'll then make his way East, heading to Bangkok June 29th and then up and over to Istanbul July 4th. Thanks to friends of mine, who

are either from Shanghai or have studied abroad there, I know a little bit about it (though admittedly not too much). It is apparently a city of contrasts where you're likely to be walking down a street on the level of say NYs Fifth Avenue, only to turn a corner and find yourself in a bustling street market, or perhaps the grittier, uncompromising side of town. Thanks to a class I took I also know that the metropolis is famous for its architectural heritage, filled with skyscrapers, and exhibiting styles as varied as modern, neoclassical, art deco, and traditional Jiangnan. I checked the weather for Shanghai, and apparently June is both the city's rainiest and most humid month—we'll have to wait until Charlie posts on the travel blog to see what he thinks of it. Be sure to check it out and keep an eye out for new posts!

Hope everyone gets to enjoy the sunshine and their Friday Afternoon!

Best,

Christine

Friday Shipping

3 Paid Internships available at Merrow for the Summer 2010

We're opening up three positions for summer internships. Send an email to owen@merrow.com for more information.

1. brand/product marketing
2. php/web design
3. graphic design

We're looking for brains, energy and a work ethic. Everything else is optional. A 2nd language preferred (but not required). The Marketing Team at Merrow is led by Nate Murray (read about him...), and spends its time and energy designing new marketing material, writing and distributing newsletters, building websites and coming up with clever ways to communicate the value of the brand

Pay is nominal (around $10/hr), but you get great experience, hopefully a terrific recommendation and the opportunity to spend 2-1/2 months doing something consequential.

We are located in 30,000 sq. foot loft space in Fall River, Massachusetts. About 15 Minutes from Providence, and 45 Minutes from Boston. Please apply by email to owen@merrow.com

A NOTE FROM LAST SUMMER'S INTERN:
From one college student to another,
As a summer marketing intern, this is what I’ve learned: Merrow is a passionate company, and an intense/relaxed environment, if that makes sense... There's no dress code, and you can be sure you'll find lots of puppies running around the office. The expectations at Merrow are simple: get the job done. You'll find that you'll have much more responsibility than at most companies, but also be doing more interesting things and getting much more experience. Merrow's got a whole lot of energy and spunk, and if you are those things too, you will enjoy working at Merrow. At the end of the summer, you will have worked hard, enjoyed some laughs, and gained a ton of real world experience.

Stitch Sample Beta Program

Stitch Samples from Merrow

A Beta Program for Merrow Agents.

Starting May 1st 2010 we're sending out stitch samples each week to our agents. We are choosing samples that come from the current weeks production of machines in Fall River,MA.

Each sample comes from an active production run of Merrow Machines.

We are doing this to help Merrow agents become aware of the Machines currently being produced, the myriad of problems that Merrow solves on a day-to-day basis, and to encourage our agents to introduce the samples to their customers. 

We will also be posting all new samples on the blog. 

If this service is helpful, please let us know. It is a Beta Program and will be modified to offer the most value to the market.

Regards,

Charlie Merrow

TODAY'S SAMPLE

APPLICATION: EDGING FIBERGlASS, a rolled edge

MACHINE: MG-3DWR-7 V.M5702

STITCH WIDTH: 4MM

PRICE: USD 2989.00

SUMMARY: The customer required that Merrow add a finished overlock edge to the fiberglass material. The stitch is designed to contain the loose fiberglass material, and prevent the raw edge of the material from fraying.

The development of the stitch through a complete production run of machines took 3 weeks. The stitch width is 4MM wide and is rolled. The Machine runs at 5500 rpm.

This Machine is prepared with a vacuum waste remover and a puller on a modified MG Table from Merrow.

The machine is available for immediate delivery.

Thread

Once in a while a customer will call and change everything. In this case it was a customer several years ago who couldn't believe we wouldn't sell her thread. We had a meeting, thought about, and after a quick discussion decided that unless we could offer some specific value around thread Merrow would not sell thread. Our informal policy was that we would only begrudgingly offer thread to order.

But the more we talked with people, the clearer it was that the world of thread was confusing for the Customer at best, and downright un-navigable at worst.

The business side was more grim. Margins are ridiculously small, the quantity of colors and sizes make inventory a nightmare. Customers often need custom dye lots.... Enough of a hassle to make the most organized among us shed a bit of a tear at the prospect of tackling such a beast of a problem.

So we developed a game plan that would aggregate knowledge, inventories, and specialty applications -- leverage technology to manage the bits & pieces. Most importantly we decided that the way people shop for thread is by color, and we worked hard to mimic the process.

The result is the beta release of Boston Thread.

We are starting with common cottage industry applications and thread selection from two great companies. The project will change and evolve over time, it will become a store tailored to color based, application specific, thread selections.

The site has lots of interesting and innovative features -- we'll probably profile them here in time. Meanwhile, take a look: your suggestions will shape the site, SO please let us know what you think -

Charlie

Merrow Tags

What's on the Merrow Site.... As we replumb and begin managing a new release of Merrow.com here's a pretty picture of what's there:

  72-D3B     Merrow Apps     70-Y3B-2     14-48     A-90-3-N     Ziggurat Table, with Air Motor Kit     Community     6-A-7     70-1D-7     Products     6-90     Store     M-110-A-5     A-90-7-N     Merrow Video     Merrow #85 Looper     6-91-K     MG-3DW-7     MG-3U     A-90-3     Needle Carriers     Classic Sewing Table     6DT     Support     72-D3B-R     Merrow #120 Lower Looper     Needles     Cutters     Merrow #97 Looper     8D     Merrow #110 Lower Looper     6-91-F     14-46     4BD     Blog     Merrow Login     6-91-E     8SD         Tables and Motors     Needles and Loopers     4DT     MG-3DW-2     the Merrow Blog     Merrow #100 Looper (Lower)     Merrow #105 Looper (Upper)     6-91-K-N     A-90-7     Contact Us     Classic Table, with Electric Motor     Locate an Agent     2SD     Merrow #79 Looper     Home     70-D3B-2     Loopers     HOOK8     70-D3B-2-CNP     Tables     MG-2DNR-1     Classic Sewing Table, Assembled     6-91     Battery Powered Table     Sewing Machines     How Old is your Merrow?     Merrow Refurbished Machine     Merrow #94 Looper     Merrow Home     HOOK59     Merrow #92 Looper     Merrow #72 Looper (Lower)     7SDT     5D     M-110-A-1     About Us     6-91-H     Manuals & Instructions     M-110-A-6     M-110-A-1-N     Service Account Login     6-90-C     Merrow Store     6-A-7-N     70-D3B-2-RAIL     MG-3Q-3     Needle Selector Tool     View Stitch Samples     3D     B2SD     Ziggurat Sewing Table         Merrow #99 Looper     Merrow #77 Looper (Upper)  

How to clean finish chenille fabric?

Every once in a while a yahoo answer brings up a good question. For years we've manufactured the best machines on the planet for the delicate fabrics. The cutting mechanism coupled with the operators ability to get close to the needle & knives allows us to manage fabrics like chenille & other delicates very well.  The 2DNR-1 (which is available red & green) would be what we'd recommend for 'Devon'.

Happy sewing!

sewing the emblem ... with Ursula 1000

an oldy but goody

how does an emblem get edged? with a merrow of course.... :-)

American Apparel Merrow Hems

AA has been loading up new product and we were emailed the Merrow® Hem products...
an example:

Great Stuff! We love to see AAs clothing... especially the Merrow stuff!

Happy Valentines Day

xoxo
from the team at Merrow

sewing machine history stuff

a reader of the blog sent me a link to the ehow article titled : What Does a Serger Sewing Machine do asking whether the Merrow history was correct

Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!

Well the article is certainly closer than most! However the author neglects to note that the father/son team first perfected the looping stitch with one thread (now known as the Whip Stitch) and modified this to trim with three threads, creating the first automated overlock stitch. The implications were broad and this invention changed how clothing and garments were manufactured.

Great stuff though -- we're proud to carry on the tradition!

Hollywood Hypocrisy, how Davis Guggenheim stole his footage from My Uncle John

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update: Washington Posts weighs in on John Merrow's side
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 this blog is generally our bulletin board for announcements and reporting on the general goings on at Merrow. Occasionally it will pivot and tackle something of general interest. Today it will specifically reprint an email from our Uncle, John Merrow. 


I watched John get an award from the Taft school last year and after listening to their introduction of my Uncle, I'm quite certain I don't have the wherewithal or knowledge to introduce John with any measure of thoroughness (here is their summary). 

Suffice to say, He's been a pre-eminent reporter on education in the US over the past 40 years, runs a non-profit dedicated to the same in NYC and paraphrasing Taft '...[has] motivated others to change how we educate children to improve the quality of their lives.'

A couple days ago I got an email that he circulated to the Merrow family -- and was surprised to read that Paramount, and specifically Davis Guggenheim and his new film "Waiting for Superman" has bilked the non-profit out of a small but meaningful royalty on their reporting of Michelle Rhee.

The email is being posted because:

1. I like and admire John a lot -- and am proud of the work he's done
2. he's family, and we stick up for family
3. the absurd and unnecessary f***ing of a non-profit (which not-so-unimportantly has been dedicated to reporting on education and the issues surrounding education) is just reprehensible. Fuck Viacom/Paramount/Davis Guggenheim (if they don't pay... )

Here is the email, make your own judgements -- and if you feel inclined visit Learning Matters. or/and write Paramount & Viacom and let them know how you feel

Family

Thought you'd be interested in this mess. Basically, an Academy Award winning director, backed by Paramount, has misappropriated (fancy word for stolen) some of our NewsHour footage for his film. I've sent this letter to reporters I know.

I've been advised, believe it or not, to 'roll over' and 'take one for the movement.'

John

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Davis Guggenheim's new film, "Waiting for Superman," is getting rave reviews. The excerpt I saw in October was powerful. It's a story of leaders, including Geoff Canada and Michelle Rhee, standing up for children against unfeeling bureaucracies and the powers-that-be. It's a feel-good film that shows the underdog triumphing. Director Davis Guggenheim is on the side of the underdog, or so one would infer from watching his film.

But not in real life. To make the film he and his producers have chosen to take advantage of the little guy, because they have appropriated our footage for their film, without our permission and without payment. 

Here's the background: Last September Davis called me and asked about using footage from our NewsHour coverage of Michelle Rhee in Washington, DC. I was flattered, of course, because I have the highest regard for his work (an Academy Award is just one of many honors he's received). But I explained to him that our little non-profit, Learning Matters, was struggling. I had been forced to cut salaries across the board by 10% (my own by 25%) and had suspended company payments into Tiaa-Cref. I told him that, although we had never sold footage before, I would consider it if the price were attractive.

Flash forward a few months. His producer called to request permission to use several scenes, including the one where Chancellor Rhee fires someone. The total running time was 2:17, and she offered $5000. Standard rates begin at $100 per second, or $13,700, by the way, meaning that this was a very low offer. I was surprised but asked her to negotiate with David Wald, our managing producer. My colleagues and I decided that we would prefer not to sell (hoping to make our own documentary), but I knew that Learning Matters' economic condition would force me to accept a decent offer, if one were forthcoming.

Less than two weeks ago his producer called again, about the same time that we learned that Paramount had bought the rights to the movie. I want to give you one more chance to accept our offer of $5,000, she said, so you can get some money out of this. I declined, at which point she told me that they were going to use it anyway, citing the 'fair use' rule. That doesn't apply here, I told her, but she said that their lawyer said it did.

It ought to be obvious that they know that 'fair use' does not apply. Why else would Davis and his producer have tried several times to buy the footage? I can only assume that they are accustomed to having their way: make a low offer and wait until the sucker accepts it. If not, take the footage anyway. They apparently assumed that they, now backed by Paramount, could steamroller over us. 

Our attorney has written their attorney, who--big surprise--has not answered the letter.

It's also obvious that the footage was already in the film when she called me, which makes me question whether she was calling to negotiate in good faith. 

We are insisting that our footage be removed from the film. If need be, we will seek an injunction against its distribution. 

John

John Merrow
Education Correspondent,
PBS NewsHour, and President,
Learning Matters, Inc.
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