{{Infobox person | name = Torine Torines | birth_name = Torine Charlotta Torissen | birth_date = 11 April 1876 | birth_place = Linköping, Östergötland County | death_date = {{Death date and age|1944|07|05|1876|04|11}} | death_place = Stockholm | known_for = Swedish sewing machine mechanic }} '''Torine Charlotta Torines''', née ''Torissen'' (11 April 1876 – 5 July 1944) was a Swedish sewing machine mechanic, known in contemporary Sweden as "The only female mechanic in Scandinavia" and "symaskinsdoktorn" (Doctor of the Sewing machines).<ref name=":0">Du Rietz, Anita, Kvinnors entreprenörskap: under 400 år, 1. uppl., Dialogos, Stockholm, 2013</ref> She repaired around 35,000 sewing machines in her career.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Westlund |first=Börje |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EadMAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Torine+Torines%22+-wikipedia |title=Stockholms gatunamn |date=1992 |publisher=Kommittén för stockholmsforskning |isbn=978-91-7031-042-3 |language=sv}}</ref>
==Early life== Torine Charlotta Torissen was born on 11 April 1876 in Linköping, Östergötland County in southeastern Sweden. Her parents managed the Torine's sewing machine's shop.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |title=Sveriges dödbok 1901-2013: Swedish death index 1901-2013 |date=2014 |publisher=Sveriges släktforskarförbund |isbn=978-91-87676-64-2 |edition=Version 6.0 |location=Solna}}</ref>
== Career == [[File:Lübeck,_Willy-Brandt-Allee_21C,_Flohmarkt_--_2017_--_0515.jpg|thumb|Husqvarna sewing machine of type Torines would have repaired]] Torine Tornies opened her own business as a sewing machine mechanic in 1891 at the age of fifteen, with her mother working as her accountant.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Adamsson |first=Marita |date=2021-03-04 |title=Kvinnorna som höll fast vid vad de ville och trodde på |url=https://www.stromstadstidning.se/kultur/kvinnorna-som-holl-fast-vid-vad-de-ville-och-trodde-pa.25f9b9ee-20af-435e-bd3d-be00cf2e78ea |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=Strömstads Tidning |language=sv |archive-date=2025-05-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250527152122/https://www.stromstadstidning.se/kultur/kvinnorna-som-holl-fast-vid-vad-de-ville-och-trodde-pa.25f9b9ee-20af-435e-bd3d-be00cf2e78ea |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Gyllenberg |first=Eva-Karin |title=Svenska kvinnliga pionjärer: från Agnes till Wilhelmina |date=2021 |publisher=Ordalaget Bokförlag |isbn=978-91-7469-390-4 |location=Bromma}}</ref> The shop was on Brännkyrkagatan, in a poor neighbourhood.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=STOCKHOLMS STAD Kommunfullmäktige Motioner 1987:91 Motion av Torsten Mathison (s) om fortsatt skärpt tillänipning av lagen om förvärv av hyresfastighet |url=https://sok.stadsarkivet.stockholm.se/Bildarkiv/Egenproducerat/Kommuntrycket/KTR0832_012_ps.pdf |access-date=2025-04-12 |archive-date=2025-05-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250527072832/https://sok.stadsarkivet.stockholm.se/Bildarkiv/Egenproducerat/Kommuntrycket/KTR0832_012_ps.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> She had a very practical approach and instead of waiting for spares to be delivered from New York or the Husqvarna sewing machine company, Torines would put a piece of scrap metal in a vice and file it into the piece required.<ref name=":4" /> Torines advertised in newspapers including weekly women's magazine Tidevarvet, offering to repair Husqvarna and Singer sewing machines, with satisfaction guaranteed.<ref>{{Cite web |date=12 October 1935 |title=TlDEVARVET |url=https://www.google.com/imgres?q=%22Torine%20Torines%22%20-wikipedia&imgurl=x-raw-image:///217621b0930e35aa05a600caf2f8c8fbe34b7bae2365cc977590ce6a4dfc7cd5&imgrefurl=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/51949/GUB0128703.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y&docid=yKAH5VHQaaD2NM&tbnid=qjUOk7AhdiFjpM&w=2772&h=3968&hcb=2&itg=1 |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=www.google.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
The sewing machine had been introduced to Sweden in the 1850s and was from the 1860s onward so common that it was fully possible for her to support herself by repairing sewing machines. In the late 19th-century, female mechanics were uncommon enough for her to be famous as such. She was quite possibly the first professional female mechanic in the country. Her business was very successful and she worked as a sewing machines mechanic for 45 years, until she handed the business over to her children in 1936. It was calculated that she had repaired around 35,000 sewing machines by the age of 60.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-03-26 |title=Torine Torines hedras för sina 35 000 lagade symaskiner |url=https://www.dn.se/arkiv/stockholm/torine-torines-hedras-for-sina-35-000-lagade-symaskiner/ |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=DN.se |language=sv |archive-date=2025-05-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250527122259/https://www.dn.se/arkiv/stockholm/torine-torines-hedras-for-sina-35-000-lagade-symaskiner/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":4" />
Torines died on 5 July 1944 in Stockholm.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
==Legacy== Torinetäppan, a park in Södermalm in Stockholm, was named after her in 1989.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Women's Map Stockholm's City Museum Dea-föreningen för Kvinnohistoriskt Museum |url=https://www.dea-foreningen.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/STKHLMs-Map-of-Women-150629.pdf |access-date=2025-04-12 |archive-date=2025-05-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250527090300/https://www.dea-foreningen.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/STKHLMs-Map-of-Women-150629.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
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