Private company

Taft-Peirce Manufacturing Company

American manufacturing company based in Woonsocket1

The Taft-Peirce Manufacturing Company was a pioneering sewing machine company established in 1875 at Woonsocket, Rhode Island, United States. As the sewing machine industry gradually commoditized, Taft-Peirce leveraged its toolmaking capabilities to become a supplier of gauges, such as various kinds of go/no go gauges, to the manufacturing industries, and a supplier of engineering and toolroom work on a contract basis.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

  • Industryindustrial manufacturing1
  • HeadquartersWoonsocket1
Taft-Peirce gage advert in American Machinist 1920 v53 n1
Photo: Taft-Peirce Manufacturing Company, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

The Taft-Peirce Manufacturing Company was a pioneering sewing machine company established in 1875 at Woonsocket, Rhode Island, United States. As the sewing machine industry gradually commoditized, Taft-Peirce leveraged its toolmaking capabilities to become a supplier of gauges, such as various kinds of go/no go gauges, to the manufacturing industries, and a supplier of engineering and toolroom work on a contract basis.2

Products and brands

  • sewing machine

Listed on Wikidata.1

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