We do know that the tables first appeared in the Featherweight manuals in 1938, and the cabinets can be seen in Singer ads as early as 1946. Unfortunately, there are no known records with serial number lists or dates for the Featherweight tables and cabinets. What years were the tables made does the serial number indicate the commission date? For the tidy home sewist, a cabinet like this would be the quintessential accessory. The lift raises and lowers the machine in and out of the cabinet. The rarest of all the Featherweight Furniture would be the 68 cabinets with the lift. It is also smaller than the table and can easily be displayed as a household piece of furniture until the machine is ready to be used again. The cabinet keeps the controller, attachment and other accessories out of view while the machine is not in use. It is very scarce to find and highly sought after because of its smaller and concealing nature. Singer also made a maple wood cabinet for the Featherweight in an 'early American' furniture style, common in the 1950s. These Table Extension additions are very hard to find, presumably because the two-legged table gets separated from the original and 'who needs a table with just two legs?' We've known a few of them to be rescued, so keep your eye out for them! When the metal leg style was in production, Singer also produced the two-legged Table Extension which provided an even greater surface area for sewing, serving or card party gathering. They came with black painted wooden legs or metal legs. The most common Featherweight tables are the ones with the black painted table rim and legs. A two-legged Table Extension with brown metal legs was also manufactured to accompany the brown-legged table, but they seem to be much more difficult to find than the black style. The brown top rims were also metal rather than wood compared to the black painted table rims. The first tables in production were painted a milk-chocolate brown on the tabletop rim and legs. Below are the various options that can still be found at antique shops, flea markets or even the occasional yard sale - don't forget to look at what the garage sale goods are 'sitting upon', or take a peek under the tablecloth of the cashier's table! Today, some of the most collectible sewing machine tables and cabinets are the ones for the Featherweight. Singer tables were what any 1940s homemaker would have wanted to accompany her machine: an adaptable table for sewing or hosting! Below is a cute ad from Singer, marketing the different ways one of their tables could be used.

1950 singer sewing machine cabinet