These are already quicker than a nontrained normal person could sew at anyway. It takes a bit to speed up but then it just goes zooooom. Not on the level of industrial machines, obviously.

I have a modern machine too, mum got it for my birthday :D

...40 years ago.

Only thing it can't do is the stretch stitches. But I can't seem to bring myself to sew nowadays, just buy more and more fabrics :/

This one will sew through the original sheet metal-like jeans in 6 layers without a hitch... At least ours does.

My mother's sewing scissors almost got me late-term aborted a few times...

Yeah, the old version in powder form. Which doesn't get used much nowadays, what with the capsules.

Edit: but I did a direct translation, I had to specify it was the white powder/granules thing cause otherwise it would not make much sense.

About two decades ago, mum worked in a small shop and they got robbed (in the night, nobody there), thieves stole some washing powder. Which was leaking and the powder line led the cops straight into the nearest apartment building, then to the exact door...