This week, Toyota Home Sewing dropped by Toyota GB’s headquarters to demonstrate the new Toyota sewing machine, the Oekaki Renaissance model, and we couldn’t resist taking it for a ‘test-drive’.
Oekaki is Japanese for ‘to draw’. In Japanese, oekaki is spelt お絵描き, which can be separated into お as the formal prefix, the letter 絵 referring to ‘a picture’, and 描き as the kaki suffix. The name reflects the free-motion embroidery technology that the model, launched in November, employs. Free-motion embroidery enables users to draw designs directly onto the fabric – ideal for quilting, dressmaking and adding a personal touch to home furnishings.
There are two main operating modes, ‘Normal’ and ‘Oekaki’. When ‘Oekaki’ is selected, the function of the machine’s foot pedal switches from altering the speed of the stitch to altering the width of the stitch. We found the shifting functions easy to pick up, and as it is not possible to accidentally speed up a stitch in ‘Oekaki’ mode it means that creating detailed patterns is relatively straightforward.
You could say that Toyota has the sewing machine market sewn up, having produced the devices since 1946. The first Toyota sewing machine was constructed under the guidance of Toyota Motor Corporation founder Kiichiro Toyoda, whose philosophy was that every machine should be “Functional but yet beautiful.”
The Oekaki model is certainly beautiful. In fact, we initially mistook it for an artisan coffee machine! Available in a choice of three colours – gloss black, red or sage green – and offering a curvaceous shape, it stands out from other sewing machines on the market.
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Hi,
I purchased this machine and I have tried to get in touch about the foot motor but haven’t received a reply. The motor pedal isn’t working for atleast a few months now and I don’t know how to fix the problem. Does toyota provide the spare part or repair for this?
Hi Tahira,
Thanks for your comment.
This is not a part supplied by Toyota UK, so we can only recommend either visiting the Home Sewing website: https://www.home-sewing.com/en_gb/
Or doing a Google search to find this part.
Apologies we cannot be of any further assistance.
Thanks.
Toyota 2600 sewing machine
Just acquired this machine from a deceased relative and the instruction information is missing, could you please inform me if it is possible to obtain a set from somewhere ? as I do not know what all the controls are for.
Thanking you in anticipation.
Mrs Irene Smetham
Hi, thanks for your question.
This is not a part supplied by Toyota UK, so we can only recommend either visiting the Home Sewing website: https://www.home-sewing.com/en_gb/ or doing a Google search to find this part.
We apologise that we cannot be of further assistance.
Hope this helps.
Thanks.
Hi
I am looking for the extension table with storage for my Toyota SP10 Series SPA15 model electric sewing machine.
Do you have a parts department that could supply this for me please?
Thank you
Sue
Hi Sue, thanks for your question.
This is not a part supplied by Toyota UK, so we can only recommend either visiting the Home Sewing website: https://www.home-sewing.com/en_gb/ or doing a Google search to find this part.
Apologies we cannot be of any further assistance.
Thanks.
HI.
I’VE GOT TOYOTA SEWING MACHINE SPB15.
IT’S NEED REPAIRS, THE THREAD STUCK INSIDE MACHINE! AND BEEN CUTS?.
CAN YOU LET ME KNOW WHERE I CAN SEND FOR REPAIRS?
Mo.
Hi Mo, thanks for your question.
Sorry – Toyota GB Plc is a sales and marketing company for automotive products. We have no information on parts or repairs for Toyota sewing machines.
We would recommend conducting an internet search or visiting the Home Sewing website: https://www.home-sewing.com/en_gb/.
Thanks.
Hi hope you can help I am looking for a users guide for RS2000 SD/U SD/LU toyota sewing machine mine has gone missing just wondering if you may have one I can have please
Hi Elaine, thanks for your question.
Sorry – Toyota GB Plc is a sales and marketing company for automotive products. We have no information on user guides for Toyota sewing machines.
We would recommend conducting an internet search or visiting the Home Sewing website: https://www.home-sewing.com/en_gb/.
Thanks.
Just reading these questions and your replies, it seams to me that Toyota sewing machine after service is disgraceful, there is no help offered to any of these people.
I was going to purchase one, but definitely won’t be now